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TIL the prescription for infants' eyeglasses is identified using a technique called Retinoscopy

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yQGmw TIL that Berlin's Schoenefeld airport once had to be evacuated after security staff mistook a passenger's vibrator for a hand grenade
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Me47A TIL Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian.the last queen of Egypt wasn't born in Egypt. As best as Historians can tell, Cleopatra VII (that's her formal name) was Greek. She was a descendant of Alexander the Great's Macedonian general Ptolemy.
l7KyG TIL about Christopher Boodram, the lone survivor of the 2022 Paria diving tragedy. Chris and his crew mates were sucked into a 30 inch diameter pipeline in the North Sea. Chris’ body lasted 35 minutes on a 6 minute emergency tank.