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TIL Glitter can cause blindness.

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VMkEm TIL that the slow-motion footage of the forest chase scene in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was produced by one of the Slow Mo Guys
N7kyQ TIL that on May 19th 1989, CBS broke into their primetime programming for over half an hour to broadcast a live dispute between the CBS News team and representatives of the Chinese government. (The government was terminating all foreign broadcasts in a lead up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.)
gr6kX TIL the train wreck scene in the movie The Fugitive, filmed with practical effects, is still laying in its aftermath positions and is a tourist spot in the Smoky Mountians
6j5J TIL Finland students have no homework and the highest education rating in the world.
e0MKL TIL making girls play video games improves their spatial intelligence to match boys