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TIL that the "red eye" effect in flash photographs is caused by the flash bouncing off your retina. When you see "red eye", you are literally seeing the back of your eyeball through your dilated pupils.

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mxn1O TIL that during the 1918 flu pandemic the Governor of American Samoa John Martin Poyer quarantined the territory. American Samoa was one of the few places in the world to not suffer any flu deaths.
LaKV TIL The little button on top of a baseball cap is called a Squatchee.
7rOxO TIL In 1970, psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to 20 years in prison. On arrival, he was given a psychological evaluation (that he had designed himself) and answered the questions in a way that made him seem like a low risk. He was assigned to a lower-security prison from which he escaped.
BrJ6r TIL: The Uniform Time act allows states to be except from daylight savings time, or observe it normally. It does not allow for States to observe permanent daylight savings time, a measure that has been passed by 6 States.
X04QX TIL that hotels must implement a limited menu, or ‘meal caps’, when hosting events for pharmaceutical companies so that doctors don’t get wined and dined with expensive food