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TIL that carrots aren’t actually good for your eyes… it’s just a myth that the British government fabricated during WWII. They wanted to keep their newly developed radar system secret from the Germans and had to find some way to explain how they were suddenly shooting down a lot more planes.

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Lk7JZ TIL that China created execution vans to make executions more efficient.
Y6mW TIL the Lobsters we eat are generally really young and thus only a fraction of the size they grow to be in the wild. Older/Larger Lobsters are thought to be less tasty, and are a species that mates more prolifically with each year, making killing a 100+ yo behemoth a conservation issue.
wo5M6 TIL Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012 to the 50th reunion for Harvard’s 1962 undergraduate class while at ADX Florence prison. In his RSVP, he listed his occupation as ‘prisoner’.
raP1 TIL That the Indian Army tracked “Spy Drones” for 6 months until it turned out they were planets.
xgpD TIL that the idiom “You kids get off my lawn” was ascribed to elderly first-generation homeowners who prided their lawns as a symbol of new-found affluence post WWII