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TIL that if we were given glasses that perfectly inverted our eyesight and turned everything upside-down, our brains would eventually figure it out and flip said things right-side-up again.

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7rvZp TIL that the most remote inhabited place on earth, the island of Tristan da Cunha, is 1250 miles from the next closest inhabited location. With no airstrip and out of civilian helicopter flying range, the fastest way to travel to it is a 6 day boat journey from South Africa.
0OwM TIL that Leland Yee, the Senator who fought to ban the sale of violent video games to minors, was arrested for attempting to traffic illegal weapons, including “shoulder-launched missiles”
neNWd TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles
bWW9 TIL that Beer was probably one of the most crucial and influential inventions of mankind, possibly even influencing the invention/discovery of mathematics and written language.
yQB5e TIL In 1915, Kulbir Thapa was the first Nepalese Gurkha to receive the Victoria Cross. Thapa carried two wounded Gurkhas through No-Man’s-Land despite being wounded himself. When he went back a third time, German soldiers stopped firing and began clapping, allowing him to walk back to his own line.