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TIL that Sponges (animal) can survive being squeezed through fine cloth and are able to reassemble themselves afterwards

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Y7x4x TIL a hearing test for human babies was developed based on a study on how owls hear. The pupils in both owls and humans dilate when a new sound is heard
80G8 TIL That the “clap” from the clapperboard in television when the director yells “action!” is used to sync the audio with the video for that take.
N9O6 TIL that the annual revenue of all companies founded by Stanford alumni and faculty members is $2.7 trillion, more than the GDP of all but nine countries in the world.
ejQ4 TIL there’s a Mariachi band that does covers of metal songs called Metalachi!
pYPPG TIL that right before the Vietnam War, US president Eisenhower acknowledged that 80 percent of Vietnam population would have voted for the communist Ho Chi Minh