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TIL that around 90% of East Asian School Children are myopic.

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KYARR TIL Twentieth Century-Fox used its profits from its film Star Wars to buy the Pebble Beach Golf Course in May 1979.
5Q6Q TIL The man who assassinated the founder of the American Nazi Party was sentenced to the least amount of years possible for murder, and was paroled after 4 years served after the presiding judge wrote a letter of support, the only time he did so in his entire career.
oRn0W TIL that the Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show
gMZ8W TIL Nebraska, the only triply landlocked state in the US, has a navy. The position of Nebraska admiral has been awarded as a joke for decades, with admirals including Big Bird and David Letterman.
o8Eo TIL our walking speed is affected by whom we’re with. On average, women walking together move the slowest, men slow down 7% when walking with female partners they’re interested in, and men walking with male friends move at speeds faster than either man’s preferred walking speed.