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TIL even a blind chameleon can change colors to blend in with its environment.

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69bX TIL Dave Grohl was invited to join “Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” in 1994, but declined due to the upcoming debut album of Foo Fighters.
xVL91 TIL that according to a 2010 study from the University of Oxford, big butts result in healthy children because of the high amount of Omega 3 fatty acids (the good fatty acids) stored. These are the same fatty acids that are responsible for the normal development of the baby's brain.
pY11G TIL we understand how gravity works, but we still don't know why it works
5YkZQ TIL about Escher Sentences, which seem to make sense at first, but actually have no coherent meaning and convey no information. An example is "More people have been to Berlin than I have".
5YBrr TIL that in 1876, James Garfield, future 20th President of the United States, developed a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem that was published in New-England Journal of Education.