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

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p80D4 TIL A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress carrying two 3–4-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. Information declassified in 2013 showed that one of the bombs came very close to detonating and was never recovered.
BPvW TIL the sperm whale was named after a semi-liquid, waxy substance found in the whale’s head that researchers mistakingly thought was semen
bd87 TIL Nutella has very few hazelnuts and is actually 58% sugar and is 32% fat, most of which is palm oil.
AeEn TIL Steve Job may have survived if he had sought scientifically proven medical treatments earlier rather than the alternative remedies and juice cleanses that he tried first.
woV96 TIL In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated to the United States