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TIL that Google is working on a contact lense for people with Diabetes that will check their blood glucose with their tears (x-post from r/diabetes)

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WkYkX TIL Burger King reportedly paid $1 million to get its mascot in Floyd Mayweather’s entourage
RQLQ TIL that 110 people once tied for second prize in the Powerball lottery. Officials suspected cheating but discovered that the winners had all used the “lucky numbers” off copies of the same fortune from fortune cookies.
Zp594 TIL King Charles VI of France, during one of his first recorded bouts of madness, killed one of his own knights and several soldiers before being pinned to the ground by his men.
wLAmY TIL there are several philosophical razors--not just Occam's Razor (simpler explanations are likely correct). One is called Newton's Flaming Laser Sword because it is, "Much sharper and more dangerous than Occam's Razor." It states that what cannot be settled by experiment ought not be debated.