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TIL: Oral ingestion of Visine warrants immediate medical attention or a call to a poison control center

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VMQ5Z TIL that in 1980, President Carter and Fidel Castro agreed to allow 125,000 Cubans to immigrate to America during an economic recession. Later, it was discovered that many of the emigrants had been sent directly from Cuban prisons and asylums.
A6Kg TIL in a test of cognitive dissonance, researchers paid participants either $1 or $20 before completing a boring 1-hour task. Afterwards, those who were paid $1 said the study was stimulating while those paid $20 said they hated it; the low-paid people had to rationalize doing the task for only $1.
Amnn TIL More than 90 percent of American films made before 1929 are lost
nWoOo TIL Surgeons that grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors and had a 33% faster completion rate on performing laparoscopic surgery
LJdp TIL Some Greenland sharks alive today were born before the English Civil war.