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TIL wearing sunglasses makes you more susceptible to becoming sunburned. Sunlight stimulates the optic nerve and warns the pituitary glad. This results in the release melanocyte stimulating protein in an attempt to prevent burns

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m1wdy TIL about Tuffi the elephant. In 1950 Tuffi the elephant survived a fall from the suspended railway (Schwebebahn) into the river Wupper 12 meters below with just minor injuries. She went on to work in circuses until her death in 1989.
9OOG TIL the RMS Lusitania carried undeclared war munitions as cargo. It was also originally designed to be converted to a warship by the British government
bgAQ TIL the White House was in such bad shape during the Truman presidency that a building inspector said the second floor was only staying up “by force of habit.” The president’s bathroom and bedroom were sealed off because they were structurally unsafe.
OaKg TIL there was a 20 meter shark that preyed regularly on whales and other large prey. They were such efficient killers that they ran out of food and had to resort to cannibalism, effectively eating themselves into extinction.
vPEr7 TIL about "The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law", an Austro-Hungarian center-left Joke Political Party made to mock the cautious and measured approach of some mainstream political parties of the time.