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TIL about ocular dominance. Our brain tends to rely more on one eye than the other, which becomes our “dominant eye.”

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b9Lm4 TIL of Anthony de Lucy, 3rd Baron Lucy. De Lucy was an English knight and crusader who died on campaign in the year 1368. In 1981 De Lucy's extremely well preserved remains were found in a crypt beneath the ruins of St. Bees Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, which had since become a car park.
wLkNo TIL the Wright brothers may not have done what they did if not for a hockey accident that sent Wilbur Wright into a depression, causing him to cancel his plans of going to Yale, and eventually open the bicycle shop with his brother.
oBbbL TIL James Murray Spangler (1848–1915), a salesman and janitor, invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner that revolutionized household carpet cleaning. His device was the first to use both a cloth filter bag and cleaning attachments. His invention was patented 1908.
b6yL7 TIL that deaf children have great difficulty learning to read; and high school seniors are likely to read at the level of a nine-year old.
wLWWY TIL England has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows since the 1930's 🌿🌻