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TIL That just like your skin, your eyes can also get sunburn; also known as photokeratitis.

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GYY71 TIL of Operation Credible Sport where a C130 propeller aircraft was equipped with rocket boosters to evacuate hostages in a soccer stadium without a runway.
9YeMM TIL in 1896, a bubоnіc plаgue epіdеmic struck Bombay, and the government asked Waldemar Haffkine, developer of the first chоlera vаccіne, to help. After 3 months of persistent work (1 assistant had a nervous breakdown and 2 others quit), a vаccіne was ready, with Haffkine tеsting it on himself first
mxBQM TIL a computer virus discovered in 1991 was named the Michelangelo virus by researchers due to its time bomb feature activating the virus on March 6 of any year, a date that happened to coincide with the birth of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
65AW TIL that James Jameson of Jameson Whiskey once arranged for cannibals to eat a slave girl in front of him, whilst he sketched the whole incident.
X4ME TIL Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance.