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TIL that Newborn babies are partially blind because they can only see the world in black and white with shades of grey and more than that they can only can only see objects which are 8 - 12 inches away infront of their face

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EMPd TIL the National Day of Prayer, which this year is today, was unsuccessfully challenged in court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The court said they are free to oppose it, but “they are not entitled to silence the speech of which they disapprove.”
epk7g TIL why you call the thing you type with a "keyboard": until 1846 the word exclusively referred to a part of a musical instrument. That year inventor Royal Earl House was issued a patent for a printing telegraph machine fitted with a literal piano keyboard with keys corresponding to letters.
mxxMY TIL out of the 5 major nuclear powers (NPT): US, UK, France, Russia and China, only China has pledged a 'No First Use' policy whereas the other four have agreed to reserve the right to use nuclear first-strikes as defensive deterrents.
7QYZ TIL The US could make 71 Billion a year just by taxing churches
aMYy TIL that when doctors go on strike, the death rate stays level or drops.