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TIL The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood vessels

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OoZbe TIL Tina Fey has a scar a few inches long on the left side of her chin and cheek. In kindergarten, she was slashed in the face by a stranger in an alley behind her house.
e0QDk TIL the smiley face logo was created in 1963 by Harvey Ball. He was paid $45 for 10 minutes of work. Ball didn't trademark the logo. Instead, French journalist Franklin Loufrani registered it as "Smiley" for licensing. Today that license generates hundreds of millions of dollars in annually.
ADPol TIL although buttons are about 5,000 years old, functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening clothes only appeared in the 13th century. For millenia, they had only been used ornamentally, or as seals.
QNLLk TIL Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan had a falling out on the set of "A Night at the Roxbury" and have only spoken to each other once since.
j6o8X TIL that there is a hairy, bearded baby. This is because he has a condition known as lanugo.