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TIL that while tracking a moving object is trivial, moving your eyes on their own without jerkiness is almost impossible.

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RGN6 TIL Johnny Knoxville is the result of “significant inbreeding”. This was discovered by a genealogist he himself hired.
xVXog TIL that Mozart was one of the first to pirate music. He heard Miserere while in a chapel and transcribed the entire composition from memory later that day.
0wN15 TIL of a science fiction novel by Dr. Wernher von Braun named "Project Mars: A Technical Tale". The novel, made in the late 1940s, describes Mars exploration. In this novel, Mars is inhabited by Martian civilization and the leader of the Martian government is entitled "Elon" (Chapter 24 on page 177)
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