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TIL viruses like ebola can change your eye color

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78b7p TIL Rhode Island Hospital was fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after brain surgery was performed on the wrong side of a patient's head three times in 2007. The state also ordered the hospital to develop a neurosurgery checklist that includes the location of the surgery
dVKE TIL that a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, Ota Benga, was ‘exhibited’ at the Bronx Zoo in the monkey house as an example of “earlier stages of human evolution” in 1906.
kJ1P5 TIL Michael Jackson had his own videogame where you gain health for saving children trapped in closets
gMPW7 TIL that there is no blue pigmentation in blue eyes. The eyes appear blue as a result of Rayleigh scattering, the same process that makes the sky appear blue.
8a06L TIL about Project Cirrus the first attempt to modify a hurricane by dropping nearly 180 pounds of crushed dry ice into the clouds of the storm. The hurricane changed direction and made landfall near Savannah, Georgia.