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TIL Tortillas have distinct sides, and you are only supposed to put your food on the "front" side.

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reZe TIL the sun and moon appear to be the same size in the sky because of an astonishing coincidence: the moon is 400 times smaller but 400 times closer.
VBQr4 TIL about Christmas eye, a seasonal epidemic of corneal inflammation occurring in a particular part of Australia, the pain of which is ‘torturous’ and ‘on par with giving birth’
bel4 TIL that the “Green Flash” as seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean film is a real phenomenon.
XwKj TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.
yQkQl TIL that most animals are digitigrade, i.e., they walk on their digits or toes. Birds, cats, dogs etc are examples and what most people think are knees are actually their ankles. Humans are plantigrades ,i.e., they walk on the flats of their feet