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Today I learned that people with poor eyesight tend to be more intellectually inclined.

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R7nY4 TIL The only surviving library of Antiquity is in a villa in Herculaneum. We do not yet have the technology to read the thousands of charred scrolls, but one day we will be able to read them and humanity will regain the lost knowledge.
Z8NZB TIL about the hunter-gatherer practice of "Insulting the Meat." To keep the best hunters from thinking themselves above the rest of the tribe, Ju/’hoan people insult the quality of the meat and lightheartedly mock the hunter who brought the animal down. The bigger the kill, the greater the insults.
VMYrQ TIL that the actor that played Anakin in Episode 1 quit acting as a result of being bullied for his role in the movie, eventually leading to him being placed in psychiatric care after crashing his car during a high speed police chase.
4k4w5 TIL that an average cloud weighs around 551 tons (or 1.1 million pounds)
oRApY TIL that nearly 0% of Indigenous Mexicans develop wisdom teeth, while practically 100% of Tasmanians do.