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TIL Scallops have anywhere from 50-200 eyes.

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Onl7 TIL that while filming “Schindler’s List,” Steven Spielberg would put Robin Williams on speaker phone to cheer up the cast and crew.
ljx7 TIL that a coal power plant releases over 100 times more radiation into the environment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy
lQ7r TIL In 1903, a barge tipped somewhere off the coast of Staten Island, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom. Most bars were recovered right away, but some 1,400 bars, valued at up to $20 million today were never found.
P9BO TIL that the first American civil war reenactors were actually veterans of the war.
VMKrZ TIL the US government had a program to track infectious viruses that may jump from animals to people, but it was shut down in 2019. It had found 1000 novel viruses.