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TIL The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply and it gets its oxygen directly from the air

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ADX1l TIL actor Ashton Kutcher took part in the development of software used to identify child sex trade victims, with nearly 6,000 identified to date.
omRL TIL that Teflon (PTFE) is the only substance that a gecko cannot climb.
j6LyX TIL that Redbox was originally named "Tiktok Easyshops" when they were started as a McDonald's marketing project.
mRXR TIL There’s an episode of Married with Children that Fox refused to air. The plot revolved around Al/Peg making a sex tape and Marcy/Steve making a sex tape. The episode was produced in 1988 but did not air for the first time until cable syndication in 2002. Even now, the reruns are heavily edited.
0ddyA TIL: The British built over 100 concentration camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Over 26,000 woman & children died in these camps from starvation & disease