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TIL Health Experts Suggest That "Night Shift Workers" Should Consider Wearing "Sunglasses" In Order To Reduce Their Exposure To Light - ProfessPost

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XmZ8 TIL Japanese Diplomat Chiune Sugihara and wife Yukiko stayed up handwriting thousands of Visas for entering Japan to Jews in Lithuania as Nazis neared, saving 6,000 lives while disobeying bosses’ orders to do it
0aQv TIL the drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd survived their tragic plane crash, and was then shot in the shoulder by the farmer he was hoping would help him.
pYnZA TIL that Wheaties and other iron-fortified cereals will stick to magnets
yv1p TIL Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants- such as fruit trees, vegetable plants, herbs, etc- which will be free to everyone. If successful, it will be the first “Urban Food Forest” of the nation.
av4b TIL until 1998, British politicians had to wear a top hat if making a point of order in the house of commons