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TIL reading in the dark doesn’t hurt your eyes

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8e8Nb TIL Leonard Nimoy directed the film Three Men and a Baby
4kAYN TIL of the “Suicide Plant”. A plant so toxic that the slightest touch causes excruciating pain that feels like “being electrocuted and set on fire” that can last months.
j6PMa TIL Zhang Zongchang, a Chinese warlord, had proclaimed that he would return only in a coffin if he was defeated in battle. When his forces were pushed back in a campaign, he was true to his word—he was paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin and smoking a cigar
XN5r TIL more than 12 billion light years away there is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
pENe TIL that the 1997 film Titanic, adjusted for inflation, still cost more to make than the actual ship itself in 1909.