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TIL that squids and octopuses don't have blind spots

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ZJ7G TIL Soviet Union had a space station armed with a 23mm autocannon
xVxB0 TIL that Thomas Edison Jr., unlike his famous father, was a terrible inventor. Eventually, he resorted to selling snake oil like the "Edison Magno-Electric Vitalizer", embarrassing his father so much that he was given an allowance of 900 dollars a week to stop marketing his own "inventions".
WXMY TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed an armed robber murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared, the officer returned to “investigate” the crime and was identified by the survivor as the shooter.
W7vVA TIL that after a week into the general run of the movie 'The Shining', Kubrick cut a scene at the end that took place in a hospital, where it's explained that Jack's body couldn't be found. The scene was physically cut out of prints by projectionists and sent back to the studio