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TIL The extreme effect of the solar eclipse eye “sunburn” is a condition called solar retinopathy, which is sun blindness caused by overstimulation of the retina. The retina has no pain receptors, so people who burn their retinas won’t feel it until their vision becomes defective several days later

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MPR0 TIL Judge Dennis Wiley, from the frontpage “sex offender” case, once gave a reverend 3 - 10 years for quoting a Biblical threat since his reverend status gave him a “direct line to God” and made the threat “credible”
6anW TIL that the United States spent more than $2 billion digging 24km of tunnels in Texas for a particle accelerator similar in scope to CERN, only to abandon the project.
8ap8K TIL that the town of Wellsville, NY was named for a man named Gardiner Wells, who was, according to local history, the one person who didn't show up for the meeting when the residents were naming the town.
P15gJ TIL Sony implemented a marketing strategy for their Walkman by hiring young adults to walk around in public wearing a Walkman, offering intrigued passers-by the opportunity to test out the product.
GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home