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TIL staring at screens makes your eyeballs elongate

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Y9lB TIL Amazon owns the patent for purchasing things with a single mouse click
VMgP4 TIL the nurse being kissed by the sailor in the iconic V-J photo went unidentified for 20 years, when she self-identified and explained she "had stepped outside to see what the commotion was when I suddenly found myself in a sailor's embrace." The two had never met, and the photo was caught by luck.
yQE8e TIL that diamonds slowly turn into graphite (the stuff you find in pencils) over time. Thus, diamonds are not really forever.
7jap TIL in Thailand, pigtailed macaques are trained to harvest coconuts. Males can harvest up to 1,600 coconuts in one day, while their human overlords can only harvest about 80.
4ZWa TIL that ‘never’ is a contraction of 'not ever’