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TIL polar explorers would treat snow blindness by dripping cocaine into their eyes.

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aw1Qb TIL An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eyeball!
ybYV TIL If a baby in a picture has a red eye effect only on one eye the kid might have retinoblastoma (the type of cancer).
PYJDJ TIL of Kim Han-Sol, North Korean heir apparent until 2001, when his father lost favor, and was assassinated by poison in 2017. In 2011 Han-Sol expressed distress and guilt over North Korean social conditions in social media. Targeted for assassination, his whereabouts has been unknown since 2017.
61M8 TIL That child support in Canada is based on past income not current income. People can be ordered by the court to pay more money than they make or have ever made. If Dave Foley returns to Canada he will go to jail because the child support payments are now literally impossible.
45Zb TIL that GiveDirectly, a non-profit that gives money to poor people, has been evaluated to be one of the most effective means of charity.