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TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago

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WbGY TIL Congress wrote the Freedom of Information Act so that they are exempt from it (among a list of many other laws)
jN5aR TIL of Santino Ferrucci, a Formula 2 driver who forced his teammate off the track, deliberately drove into him and drove while holding his phone in one hand, all in a single Championship Sprint Race.
LkNKr TIL that there are as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on the planet, and nowhere in the world has more than Queens, according to the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA).
7PPr TIL We are still in the Ice Age
mXrp TIL a guy dissected every scene from lost and put them in a chronological timeline. He took every flashback, flash forward, and flash sideways, extracting them from the present day stroyline, and one big timeline.