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TIL Kodak employed blind people to develop colour photos and manufacture film because those jobs needed to be done in pure darkness.

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v1LZL TIL that the flag of Hawaii is the only US state flag to include a foreign country's national flag.
nk67 TIL Odds of being attacked by a candiru (penis invading fish) are “about the same as being struck by lightning while simultaneously being eaten by a shark.”
e0Z16 TIL of Frank Bourne, the last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift. At 22 he was the youngest Colour Sergeant in the British Army at the time. He ultimately reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and died aged 91 in 1945, on VE Day
7r9bP TIL 2 weeks after the 1972 democratic convention, vice presidential nominee T.Eagleton had to withdraw from the race because of a media campaign targeting his rumoured history of depression and shock therapy. 77% of voters polled at the time, said that his medical record would not affect their vote
vPbD7 TIL Bells on collars seem to reduce the amount of prey caught by 50%+.