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TIL the human retina is actually brain tissue, you see with an exposed part of your brain.

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kJnKm TIL of Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved black Muslim scholar from the 18th century. Although his slave owners believed he had converted to Christianity, his autobiography revealed that he was still Muslim. His love for Jesus was interpreted as Christian, when Jesus is also a Muslim Prophet.
rRwb1 TIL about Continuum, an AIDS denialism magazine that shut down because all its editors died from AIDS.
16AgW TIL about disappearance of Alfred Loewenstein. In 1928 world's third richest person disappeared mid flight while travelling on his private plane.
Zp86o TIL that Ford Heights, IL was renamed in an attempt to persuade the nearby Ford plant to be within their corporate limits, but the plant was incorporated into an adjacent city (Chicago Heights) instead.
PY6Z TIL that some people, due to a rare genetic mutation, only need to sleep for about four hours a night. Margaret Thatcher, James Franco, and Martha Stewart have all been suspected to have this condition.