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TIL Bono wears glasses all the time because he has glaucoma

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E11P7 TIL The Ironic Process Theory (a.k.a. the White Bear Problem) which refers to the psychological process whereby deliberate attempts to suppress certain thought makes them more likely to surface. For example, try to not think about a White Bear.
0wdO1 TIL That 7% of all American adults (which equates to around 16 million people) believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows
OGlv7 TIL: Aretha Franklin’s father, C.L. Franklin, was a famous civil rights activist. Known as “the Man With the Million Dollar Voice,” he was a friend to MLK Jr and a successful minister. Franklin was shot during a home invasion in 1979 and spent his final five years in a coma, dying in 1984.
Yp4MP TIL Horses can roll over on their backs without suffocating like a turtle
Me97m TIL that President Nixon was actually against the idea of Amtrak. The only reason he signed the 1970 Railpax legislation, bringing it into existence, was because the congressional aides that drafted it told him Amtrak wouldn't survive for more than 5 years.