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TIL Our eyes have immune privilege - meaning that if detected, they would be considered a foreign invader and would be attacked by our immune system, causing us to go blind.

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VMNNZ Today I learned that chocolate milk is actually more nutritious than orange juice.
v1QwB TIL that the Eiffel Tower grows in summer. When it gets hot, the iron expands due to the heat and shrinks again in the winter. It grows by 6 inches each summer.
e0d1n TIL in 1744, two Scottish Presbyterian ministers made a plan to have fellow ministers pay a small amount a year into a fund, which would be used to take care of their widows if ministers died. It became the blueprint for modern insurance, and their fund, Scottish Widows, is now worth billions.
P8ye TIL King George III had an illness that caused his poop to turn purple
PRoL TIL that a town in Newfoundland took in 38 airplanes carrying over 6,600 passengers immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Centers, almost doubling the town population. Despite this, the people of the town worked together tirelessly to care for the passengers for up to 6 days.