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TIL staring at screens makes your eyeballs elongate

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8RYZ TIL in 1994 the Surgeon General was fired for advocating drug legalization and masturbation (being part of human sexuality)
wLGko TIL North Carolina was paid $80 million by other states to build a waste treatment plant, did nothing, was sued in the Supreme Court—and won
9Y7Mr TIL that Johan de Witt the Prime Minister of the Dutch Republic was so unpopular at the time of his death in 1672 that the angry mob that killed him also ate his body
ppNZ TIL on the 25th anniversary episode of Sesame Street in 1994, Joe Pesci appeared as the character “Ronald Grump”, who wanted to demolish Sesame Street to build “The Grump Tower”.
KPG4 TIL the record for the fastest manned aircraft was set in 1959, and still hasn’t been broken.