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

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xVvO1 TIL that the last French casualty of WWI, Augustin Trébuchon, was killed 15 minutes before the ceasefire at 11 o'clock in an attempt to tell his fellow soldiers that hot soup would be served after the armistice took effect.
XEmD6 TIL There is no such thing as a Right brain/Left brain personality divide. A 2013 brain scan study from the University of Utah, demonstrated that activity is similar on both sides of the brain regardless of one’s personality.
AdlB TIL a ten-year psychological study found that men who kissed their wives before leaving for work lived, on average, five years longer, earning 20 to 30 percent more than peers who left without a kiss.
mV6x TIL Stephen king was hit by a van not far from his home in 1999. He suffered from a collapsed lung, a broken hip,a leg broken in nine places.Afterward he and his lawyer bought the van for $1,500 and when King healed, he wailed on it with a baseball bat before sending it to be crushed at a junkyard
mJMP TIL Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. A Canadian by the name of Henery Woodward did and sold Edison the patent, Edison simply made a few minor tweaks to the invention and stole all the credit.