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TIL that blue light can lead to poor and reduced sleep, but studies have shown that protective glasses can help. Harvard said "It also suggests that shift workers and night owls could perhaps protect themselves if they wore eyewear that blocks blue light."

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Jvam TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “..Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”
KY9A9 TIL about vanity height: very tall buildings often include a substantial amount of unusable space purely to make the building taller. For example, 29% of the Burj Khalifa's 829 meter height (224m) is vanity - it is still the tallest building by top floor height, but only by two meters.
xkPb TIL That Alan Turing (who created a precursor to the modern computer), committed suicide in 1954. Two years prior, he had been “convicted” of homosexuality, in which he was forced to undergo hormonal treatments and lost security clearance to continue his research.
oRoM8 TIL that 5th Element director Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich started a relationship after Maiwenn (who played the Diva) and he broke up. Luc and Milla by the end of the film would have casual conversations in the "Divine Language" that Luc had made up, and that Milla added to
dD0N9 TIL that in 2022 there were over 151M valid US passports, up from 7.26M in 1989. Wyoming had the fewest applications in 2022 with 22k. People can apply for a book or card so may have two.