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TIL that Ancient Rome was mostly built without urban planning

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Z8Moo TIL a woman in china lured a 6 year old boy into a field to completely remove his eyes via gouging with an unknown implement.Police suspected cornea harvesting but this was quickly ruled out when the eyes were discovered at the scene, albeit no longer attached to his body, completely intact.
XXvj TIL That on April 1st 2014, NPR posted an article saying “Why doesn’t America read anymore?” The content of the article explained the joke, but they still received a massive influx of comments by people who clearly didn’t read the article
NX098 TIL: before the 2014 movie Interstellar, black holes were depicted in media as spinning whirlpools in space, but the movie used a team of physicists to determine how a black hole would look to the human eye
kV7g TIL that in 2005 scientists created a 100% effective non-human Ebola Vaccine which could potentially be ready for licensing by 2010 or 2011. However, it “sat on the shelf” due to the resistance of drug companies as poor countries couldn’t afford to pay and Ebola was “rare”.
6EXXm TIL of teenage serial killer Charles Starkweather, who killed 11 people with his 14-year-old girlfriend. After his first murder, Starkweather believed he had transcended his former self, reaching a new plane of existence in which he could commit any crime without guilt or fear of repercussion.