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

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80LK TIL there are exploding lakes. Lake Nyos in Cambodia exploded in 1986 after being saturated with carbon dioxide from the volcanic vent below it. The resulting CO2 cloud suffocated 1700 people.
VM67G TIL The north pole of the planet is actually a magnetic south pole right now, but it is still referred to as “magnetic north” to correspond with our geographic measurements
DPne TIL there’s a game that makes you make decisions as though you were a single parent with only $1,000 left and most people don’t get past 11 minutes into it
p8rG4 TIL in 2015 a Chinese woman was stopped at an airport in Beijing for having a bottle of Cognac in her carry-on. Instead of handing it over to airport security, she chugged the entire bottle on the spot before taking her plane.
Oojra TIL that the earths ozone layer is on track to healing completely within 50 years.