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TIL Chris Farley was suppose to be the voice of Shrek (he was over 80% done with the dialogue before he died)

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E1LQW TIL about the League of Militant Atheists, an atheistic and antireligious organization of workers and intelligentsia that developed in Soviet Russia. The League aimed at exterminating religion in all its manifestations and forming an anti-religious scientific mindset among the workers.
9b7X TIL a day on planet Venus lasts longer than a Venusian year
9Yo7m TIL about mud cookies that made from dirt mixed with salt and vegetable shortening or fat. People eat them as a way to stave off starvation in one of the poorest country on Earth, Haiti.
8PL4 TIL boxer crabs have small pincers that are useless for defense, so they carry sea anemones around as weapons.
69gwZ TIL 50% of the world population will have myopia by 2050, and in China already 80% of teenagers and young adults are afflicted. Myopia significantly increases the risk of blindness later on in life. They still don't quite now exactly what causes it.