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TIL that Jake Gyllenhaal is legally blind

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aOR0 TIL - On the last morning of WWI, and with full knowledge of the armistice at 11am, American General William Wright ordered an attack that killed 365 men because he wanted to take a bath.
kynm TIL there is a genetic disorder which makes the affected person have an uniquely happy personality and an interest in water
N7b4b TIL Humans didn’t have a way to describe the color blue until relatively recently. Homer’s The Odyssey doesn’t contain a single instance of the word ‘blue’.
4XJab TIL George Clooney is one of the closest living relatives of Abraham Lincoln.
E1GAd TIL that the concrete used by the Roman Empire has been proposed as an alternative to modern concrete. It's believed that it would have a substantially smaller environmental impact than our own in addition to being far more durable, surviving thousands of years in harsh conditions nearly unscathed.