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TIL 75 percent of adults need some form of vision correction (but not all of them get it). 64 percent of them wear glasses, more women wear glasses than men, and more women wear glasses than don't

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YpgZW TIL a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia because it tells kids that “spiders can’t hurt you”
e0Q8J TIL that since dolphins breathe manually, they cannot enter 'deep sleep' like humans. Therefore, dolphins only allow one half of their brains to sleep at a time, and never lose consciousness.
MpLB TIL Pandora (internet radio) didn’t pay its 50 employees at all for two years from 2002-2004
ne9yP TIL about the origins of US whistleblower protections. In 1777, 10 soldiers reported their commanding officers for torture. Instead of branding the soldiers as traitors, the Founding Fathers passed a law protecting them and future whistleblowers.
wLMAY TIL the odds of divorce are lowest with zero or one premarital [sex] partners