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TIL viruses like ebola can change your eye color

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1NA8 TIL Marcia, George Lucas’s ex-wife, got an Oscar for her editing and was behind some of the better ideas of Star Wars. She got very little credit after the divorce.
GANXQ TIL tortoiseshell, used in eyeglass frames, guitar picks and luxury items, has been banned for trade since 1973 because it mostly comes from the endangered hawksbill sea turtle. Most "tortoiseshell" objects today are made from plastic
grXZ7 TIL Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first film to feature the visuals and sounds of a flushing toilet with the toilet as an integral part of the story.
b9Oy4 TIL that the word "conundrum" was probably made up as a joke by a student at Oxford in the 16th century.
ObWg TIL the Israeli Galil rifle was designed with a bottle opener by the front handguard because it was common for soldiers to damage magazines using them as bottle openers.