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TIL that stargardt disease makes the center of your vision blind, making you only being able to see the sides

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GAQyJ TIL that between 2008 and 2016, JPMorgan sent fake buy and sell orders into metals and Treasuries markets to move prices in their favor.
yRGM TIL Sean Connery was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond
a8GLo TIL John Wilkes Booth thought it was God's will that he assassinate Abraham Lincoln. He also believed slavery was God's greatest blessing to the nation, since he believed he viewed slavery the same way as the original framers of the constitution.
jNY1M TIL that a 12-minute Hobbit "movie" was made in 1967 because the production company was about to lose the film rights unless a movie was released. It was produced quickly and cheaply, released on the very last day the rights would expire. Tolkien had to pay $100,000 to get the rights back.
oB7k8 TIL in 2002, a Coptic monk in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre moved his chair just a bit to get away from the sun. This caused a fistfight between Ethiopian and Coptic monks and eleven people ended up being hospitalised.