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TIL that up to 90% of Asian schoolchildren are nearsighted

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6XaJ TIL that there is a statue outside the Paris museum Pompidou celebrating Zinedine Zidane’s last match where he headbutted Marco Materazzi in the WC final ‘06
1agRX TIL in 2003 a herd of wild elephants released a group of captive antelopes from a game reserve in Southeast Africa. The matriarch of the herd undid all of the gate's metal latches with her trunk & then pushed it open. The antelope took their chance & ran into the bush followed by the elephants.
LKj0 TIL Eminem bought Elton John 2 diamond cock rings for his civil partnership
WkGM9 TIL Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin through his hobby of microbial art. Leaving a Petri dish painting of bacteria unattended for two weeks it was being killed by Penicillium fungus. Thus the antibiotic properties were studied leading to Penicillin.
9dk7 TIL That actor Ashton Kutcher studied Biomedical Engineering at University of Iowa in an attempt to cure his twin brothers heart condition.