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TIL in 2016 a woman was cleaning up after working on a craft project with her daughter when a small speck of glitter got into her eye and cut her cornea, which created an infection and ultimately caused her to go completely blind in that eye.

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loxlA TIL that particle physicist John Ellis lost a bet and had to include the word "penguin" in his next scientific paper. After struggling to find a way to include the word, he "smoked some illegal substance" which gave him the inspiration for the now important Penguin Diagrams.
OoR9Y TIL that the world’s oldest drawing is a Stone Age crayon doodle drawn on rock in a South African cave dated at 73,000 years old. The drawing is a four-centimeter-long pebble criss-crossed with nine lines. The lines appear to have been drawn with an ochre crayon, a type of clay rich in iron oxide.
NLMM TIL that ‘you are my sunshine, my only sunshine’ song is actually pretty dark
NXEMP TIL production of the TR-808 drum machine, an early hip-hop staple, came to an end when improvements in semi conductors eliminated the source of defective transistors that was the secret to the sizzling sound it was known for.
grAl4 TIL John Candy was reputedly the "most-burned potential host" of SNL, in that he was asked to host many times, only for plans to be changed by the SNL staff at the last minute.