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TIL that lenses are called lenses because they resembled/resemble lentils.

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e7Yn Til that the Human population dropped to as low as 40 breeding adult couples
koZ7 TIL: In China, “the hero pays for their action”. If you help someone, you assume responsibility, and are at risk of being sued.
VBWp TIL In retail slow music is played to keep you shopping and spend more; in restaurants fast music is played to speed up turnaround.
9wZlp TIL that in March of 1945, the United States firebombed Tokyo. This killed over 100,000 civilians, more than the bomb dropped in Nagasaki five months later.
WkjA TIL J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas Police who, according to two government investigations, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s initial arrest was for Tippit’s murder, not Kennedy’s