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TIL that pirates and sailors wore eye patches not necessarily to cover a missing eye, but also to keep one eye dark-adapted for work below decks.

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X4jX TIL that the ancient board game “Go” was being played at a tournament in Hiroshima in 1945, when the atomic bomb went off only 3 miles way. Though the building was damaged and people were injured, they finished the match later that same afternoon (white won)
6E8BY TIL Many cities enacted anti-spitting laws, that are still technically enforceable today, to combat tuberculosis in the 1800-1900’s which was killing more people than any other disease at the time.
v1yyK TIL that in the original novels, James Bond was found to consume, on average, 92 units of alcohol a week. His preference for martinis “shaken, not stirred” may have stemmed from an inability to stir his drinks due persistent shaking from alcohol induced tremors.
N8vQ TIL - An Orthodox Jewish school in NJ, which forbids its students from using the internet, received a $700k federal grant for classroom computers. A total of five computers were found on campus. In a school of 1,025 students.
7rAgr TIL That the reason people drive on the left in Japan dates back to the Edo period. If the sheathes of two Samurai touched they would have to fight, usually to the death. In order to avoid this, Samurai would always walk on the left thus preventing any possibility of bumping sheathes.