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TIL: There's a New Type of Glasses That Autofocus Automatically Based on What You're Looking At

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D1PRg TIL that Thomas Jefferson bred and raised a special type of geese in order to supply himself with quill pens.
BgpoW TIL that the US's founding fathers likely had British accents.
1alVV TIL that Kurt Vonnegut adopted his sister’s three sons after she died of cancer two days after her husband died in a train accident.
vP54K TIL of Benford's Law, which states that almost 50% of numbers in real-life datasets start with 1 or 2. This can be used to detect tax fraud.
R7XZ8 TIL that the reason many Hanna Barbera characters had collars and ties was to save money on animation. Separating the head and body allows the body to remain static while the head is animated. This made it so a seven minute cartoon only required around 2,000 drawings, as opposed to the usual 14,000