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TIL: That an estimated (more than) one million people in the world can see today because of initiatives instigated by Frederick “Fred” Cossom Hollows, AC (9 April 1929 – 10 February 1993), a New Zealand and Australian ophthalmologist

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0wWEj TIL that filmmaker Ralph Bakshi grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and got his mother's permission to attend the local segregated school with his friends. The school called the police and, afraid whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending, expelled him
WkdbN TIL the following graffito message was found painted on the entrance a late 2nd century CE ancient Roman family tomb: "I remember touching the buttocks of a certain girl, whose ashes cover the golden earth."
ne4aB TIL: some scientists believe that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has killed over one million people and health effects are still occurring, especially in children
D1k4p TIL that Singapore has a mandatory capital punishment for drug dealers
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