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TIL that the Geneva Convention requires POWs to have access to tobacco

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4ke46 TIL box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) have actual eyes, with lenses and corneas.
1MpV TIL The CEO of Nestle doesn’t think water is a basic human right and wants to control the worlds water supply
ADXb4 TIL there's such thing as a Quaking Bog, where bog vegetation builds up on top of water or very wet peat. Walking there can cause the ground to ripple and trees to sway.
1aJ0O TIL Three cleanup volunteers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant voluntarily suited up in scuba gear and swam into the radioactive water, knowing that they would die as a result, to open a gate valve allowing containmented water to drain out preventing a catastrophic thermal explosion.
8eaKb TIL about billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, who has given away more than $8 billion and now lives in a rented apartment with a remaining balance of $2 million.