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TIL doctors were able to restore a blind man's vision with a surgery involving bionic eyes. He had been blind for 40 years.

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4X4Aa TIL that throughout history, about 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did
4X8KX TIL that approximately 70 people spent four years in Madagascar collecting and handling over 1 million golden orb weaver spiders to use their silk in the production of an 11-by-4-foot (3.4-by-1.2m) “golden” embroidered cloth, the largest ever of it’s kind.
1KJD TIL, The Harris Neck Occupation: When black protesters took over a wildlife refuge in 1979, they were removed in 3 days
o6aE TIL the highest troop concentration in the history of counter-insurgency warfare was not in Iraq, or Afghanistan, but in Ireland, where the British stationed 20 troops for every 1000 civilians during the peak of The Troubles
kO987 TIL The International Federation of Robotics has Japanese robot manufacturers delivering over half of the world's robots, 52% of the total global supply.