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TIL Martian Van Buren Was the First President Born in the United States

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oBlno TIL: U.S. pharmaceutical companies are not legally required to reveal in what countries their products are manufactured
D1bkj TIL that author Lee Child was inspired to name his character Jack Reacher after a shopping trip. An old lady asked for his help in reaching for a can of pears; Child's wife, when seeing this, commented that if his writing career didn't work out, he could 'always get a job as a reacher'.
nWjKr TIL about a Chinese man named Zhao C (赵Ｃ), who was forced to change his name when he was 22 years old because it included a Latin character, which is not "part of the national standard for "numbers and symbols" of the People's Republic of China"
JYowj TIL of Robert Martinson, an American sociologist who became notable nationwide in the early '70s for his influential conclusion that prison rehabilitation was ineffective. He killed himself a few years later, after he published a reversal of his stance that went largely unnoticed.
GDw1 TIL that the veins in your eyes are above your retina and you can actually see their shadows.