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TIL Scallops have anywhere from 50-200 eyes.

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W71ZY TIL as recently as the 1960s, information about bagels was not necessarily common knowledge. In 1960, The New York Times famously identified bagels for still-clueless readers as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”
rN7J4 TIL that Erik Weihenmayer was the first person to climb mount Everest blind
oBeQL TIL that the two of the US pilots who were able to take off during the attack on Pearl Harbor and down 7 enemy aircraft in the process were denied the Medal of Honor because their commanding officer said they had "taken off without orders".
ye8J TIL There are up to 24 dialects of American English
x45 TIL the USAAF filmed hundreds of hours of post-war Europe in summer 1945, most of which has never been seen. Special Film Project 186 has been called “the biggest color film project of World War II—and the biggest unseen film of all time.”