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TIL Some believe that if children wear glasses when they are young, they won’t need them later. Others think wearing glasses as a child makes one dependent on them later. Neither is true. Children need glasses because they are genetically nearsighted, farsighted, or astigmatic

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b60oE TIL in 2020, 68-year-old actress Ana Obregón lost her only son to cancer at 27. After his death, she used her son's frozen sperm to grant her wish of having a granddaughter (via surrogacy) who she's currently raising as her daughter.
LQkOQ TIL The Verve only made about $1000 from their song Bittersweet Symphony due to a copyright issue. The Rolling Stones had originally ended up with the rights before they returned them in 2019.
gM6Z9 TIL a New York man sued Miller Brewing Co. for false advertising, claiming that its Fosters commercials convinced him that the beer was Australian. In fact, the beer is actually brewed in Fort Worth, Texas.
oBLwW TIL that the first Star Wars (1977) movie was offered by George Lucas to Disney but got declined. It was released by FOX instead and became then the highest grossing movie ever. Decades later, Disney would buy both the Star Wars franchise and 20th Century Fox in deals worth billions.
9JGX TIL that low gravity makes it difficult to tell if your bladder is full, because the bladder’s stretch receptor nerves don’t feel the weight of the liquid. Astronauts are trained to empty their bladders every two hours because of this.