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TIL that the first fitted glass contact lens was created in 1888

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Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.
4kmDa TIL African "reverse missionaries" are traveling to Europe to spread Christianity
XYVP TIL Gobekli Tepe, a stone age “temple”, is decorated with pillars of elaborately carved foxes, lions, spiders, snakes, scorpions & vultures posed to twist & crawl. It predates Stonehenge & the written word by 6,000 years. It extends across 22 Turkish acres. In the 60s it was dismissed as a cemetery.
jNNZR TIL of Neom, a $500 billion utopian territory based on tech and liberal values that Saudi Arabia plans to build by 2025
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