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TIL William Horatio Bates developed a (dangerous and ineffective) alternative therapy method of treating nearsightedness that involved using a lens to focus sunlight directly onto a patient's eyes

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JN7Q TIL that 8.2% of Norwegians eat tacos every single Friday
lonGA TIL of the Hedgehog Dilemma. Schopenhauer’s metaphor that describes how humans want intimacy, but often hurt each other trying to get it.
xOMg TIL A boy wrote Jay Leno asking him to take him to school because he told his friends that Jay was his uncle. So Jay picked the kid up in his Lamborghini Countach and drove him to school. When dropping him off, he yelled out the window “Say hi to your mom for me!” and drove away.
gMkg9 TIL the Antikythera Shipwreck of the First Century BCE, discovered by Greek sponge divers, yielded artifacts including art, jewelry, a statue of Herakles, coins, but most importantly the Antikythera Mechanism, interlocking gears that computed the movements of the sun, the moon, and eclipse dates
4krgJ TIL Casimir Pulaski, Father of the American Cavalry, may have been born female or intersex