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TIL that as some people age, their vision can appear to improve, especially if they were mildly nearsighted.

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65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
nW7jb TIL Africa and Asia are home to nearly 90 percent of the world's rural population.
1am44 TIL that Pygmies raised in a thick forest were unable to interpret distant objects. One thought that buffalo grazing in the distance were insects.
1MN7 TIL that half of a byte (8 bits) is called a nibble (4 bits).
4kyl6 TIL in ancient India the Krosa, a Sanskrit word, was a unit of measurement defined by the distance at which a cow's moo is heard.