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TIL Scientists say schools in China should further increase outdoor time, including recesses, in order to reduce the risk of near-sightedness. In some parts of China, 90 per cent of high school graduates have nearsightedness

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wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...
a8DE0 TIL You could have traveled from London to Calcutta, India by a bus in 1950s.
wL5g7 TIL in 2016, 'Getty Images' sold some of the 100,000+ photos that had been donated, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress by the original photographer and Getty Images then demanded payment from the photographer, for using the photos she owned. She sued them (unsuccessfully) for over $1 billion.
DQ1PD TIL a man named John Darwin faked his death at sea for life insurance money and hid next door to his family home whilst he was presumed dead
lKNA TIL: Those weird looking scientific instruments you always see in nuclear test footage contained live pigs [NSFL]