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TIL there are no qualifications to being nominated to the SCOTUS. Not even age or US Citizenship. All you need to do is be “an individual”

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VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
D1PgP TIL that in 1875 a swarm of 12.5 trillion locusts covering 198,000 square miles and weighing 27.5 million tons descended upon the Great Plains, devouring all plant life in their path. Farmers that tied to shoo them away had the clothes eaten right off their bodies.
Oorp7 TIL that the "Jedi Master and historian Ri-Lee Howell," was named after Riley Howell, a 21 year-old who died tackling the gunman during a shooting on the UNCC campus.
GgKg TIL: Grease Trivia - Saran wrap was used in lieu of condoms in the 50’s - Thus its appearance in the Grease Lightning number.
J1QAv TIL that the phasing out of IE6 began when a small group of devs at YouTube went rogue and put up a banner without permission claiming that they were dropping support soon