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TIL A simple laser procedure can turn brown eyes blue

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jOrX TIL in Lewis Carroll’s through the looking glass, Alice’s movements through the book map out a playable game of chess
468N TIL that the words in the song “do re me fa sol la si’ came from an old language that comprised of only 7 syllables. "Words could be sung, or played and since the language could also be translated into the seven colors of the rainbow, sentences could be woven into a textile as a stream of colors.”
vPdg8 TIL The French cartoonist Nadar was the first person to take aerial photographs, shooting from a balloon, and the first to take photographs underground, taking pictures of the Paris Catacombs.
9YXYp TIL about TRIS, a flame retardant that has been shown to cause cancer. However, TRIS and many other flame retardants are widespread in homes and are linked to a wide range of toxic effects even though they might not even work.
jNbej Today I learned an Adze is a sideways Axe