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TIL Blue eyes are not due to pigmentation, and actually appear blue due to their structure in the same way the sky does.

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VMKnB TIL about Henry Rathbone, the military officer who was sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated. He was wracked with guilt over his perceived failure to stop the assassination and slowly went insane. He later murdered his wife in a fit of madness and spent the rest of his days in an asylum
8aRR4 TIL Southwest Airlines flew a plane full of puppies to help them escape from Hurricane Harvey
vPjOx TIL in 2021, detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were advertised for sale online by a cyberthief. The data included email addresses, randomly generated password strings, and payment information, belonging to users of three VPN apps—SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN
woO6E TIL that there is enough space between the moon and the Earth that all of the other planets in our solar system could fit between them.
yV7eX TIL the universe is mostly hydrogen (74%) and helium (24%). All other matter is part of the remaining 2% of stuff in the universe. The sum total of this matter accounts for less than 5% of the universe’s energy.