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TIL: humans have developed injections containing nanoparticles which when administered into the eye convert infrared into visible light giving night vision for up to 10 weeks

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epO0D TIL that Phan Thi Mao, a young Vietnamese woman, was kidnapped and repeatedly abused by US soldiers in 1966, only one of those soldiers decided to stand up for her and reported the situation, this event became known as the “incident on Hill 192”
oR15K TIL that the writer of 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' sued Meat Loaf to prevent him from singing it
v8RB TIL a boy gave General Rahl of the British Army a note from a spy that George Washington was about to cross the Delaware and attack. The general was so immersed in a Chess game that he put the note in his pocket unopened. There it was found when he was mortally wounded in the subsequent battle.
0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
nAP9 TIL Bats are not even remotely related to rodents, but are instead closer related to primates and lemurs