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TIL staring at screens makes your eyeballs elongate

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v1ayx TIL on Oct. 12, 2013, an unassuming elderly man set up a stand in Central Park of original, signed Banksy canvases for sale at $60 each. It was part of Banksy's month-long "residency" in New York City and wasn't announced to the public until the next day. Only eight pieces of art were sold that day.
GYx7G TIL The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope captured an image of granular looking convection cells on the surface of the sun, which are each about the size of Texas. Features as small as 30 km can be resolved from the image
ned5G TIL That There Were Volcanoes on the Moon During the Dinosaur Age
86kP TIL The Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t actually Dutch, they are German. Upon arrival, they were saying “Deutsch” which is German for, well, German. Germany in the their native language is “Deutschland.” English speaking Americans just assumed they were saying “Dutch.”
6EQWl TIL that after Christopher Columbus' third trip to Hispaniola, he was imprisoned for his mistreatment of the native population