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TIL Reindeer are the only mammals that can see UV (ultraviolet) light and make sense of it

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1xXr TIL that in 1985 Phil Collins first performed at the Live Aid concert at Wembley (UK), 5 hours later he joined the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia (US) at the same local time as in London, thanks to the Concorde.
7rLlr TIL, "Take Poo to the Loo" was an Indian social media campaign led by UNICEF to combat the country's problems with open defecation.
kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
wLMYJ TIL I learned that part of the reason kids like to spin, roll, and swing is that it stimulates and develops the proprioceptive system, which influences coordination, spatial, and body awareness, and also helps calm them down.
0drnN TIL that every year, Western Europeans alone collectively lose about 1.6 million years of healthy life because of traffic noise.