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TIL the stem that connects your eye to the brain takes a small space in the back of your eye where photoreceptors can't be. This makes a natural blind spot for everyone that is only overcome because your second eye compensates.

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wLAr8 TIL During the terrifying cholera epidemic of 1835–1836, the island of Sardinia was the only Italian region to escape cholera, thanks to surveillance by armed men who had orders to prevent, by force, any ship that attempted to disembark persons or cargo on the coast
9YxWp TIL The Coco Bongo Club from "The Mask" really exists, and is owned by Jim Carrey
woegW TIL the first telephone switchboard operators were boys, but their "rude and abusive" behavior led them to be replaced by young women.
5Y0x8 TIL that in Chiloe, an island in the south of Chile, there's a tradition called "minga" where the locals help each other to relocate their houses by dragging them through the sea with boats.
Wkv6o TIL A 2004 American Public Health Association (APHA) resolution called for a moratorium factory farms for growing antibiotic resistance of pathogens, drinking water contamination from waste, severe respiratory problems in workers, and illnesses among people living nearby