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TIL Elevators are the safest mode of travel

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LkOJr TIL a Saudi man was arrested for unknowingly buying and flying the LGBT flag. The man's child saw the flag online and thought it was pretty. The doctor (having never seen an LGBT flag) bought one and flew it over his house. Only after religious police arrested him did he learn what it represented.
dDZ6Z TIL that the human eye is known to have internal circadian rhythms, and that morning-circulating-melatonin levels (a circadean/sleep health issue) were measured almost three times higher in people who are near-sighted/myopic
e0x5L TIL, on April 9th 2007, a theater filled with parents and their small children who were there to see 'The Last Mimzy' were accidentally shown 'The Hills Have Eyes 2', in which the beginning of the movie features a screaming, bruised, beaten, and bloodied woman delivering a deformed newborn
Omo4 TIL Namibia is also the only country to include protection of the natural world in its governmental constitution
J1911 TIL According to George Lucas, R2D2 is the true narrator of Star Wars, and the entire story is an elaborate framing device