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TIL Bono wears glasses all the time because he has glaucoma

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RNr9 TIL There are very tiny Meteorites called Micrometeorite and you can collect them by swirling around a magnet in a bowl of rain water. They will appear spherical and attach themselves to the magnet.
DyKJ TIL: Elvis Presley requested to be made a DEA agent so that he could travel with drugs without any problems. President Nixon agreed to meet him and gave him a special badge.
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