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

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1aRmV Til of Babani Sissoko, who used black magic to con the Islamic Dubai Bank of more than $240m. He served half of his 43 day sentence and paid fines ($1.25m) with the money defrauded from the bank
9oBM TIL Academics have claimed the Australian accent is slurred due to the fact that forefathers regularly got drunk together and through their frequent interactions unknowingly added an alcoholic slur to our national speech patterns.
nYdo TIL… In 1954 the CIA deposed a democratically elected Guatemalan president and replaced him with a dictator to save investments in a banana company.
Me4DW TIL one of the Founding Fathers originally wanted there to be Department of Peace that would keep the Department of War (now the Department of Defense) in check.
rRg6W TIL the oldest material we've found on Earth was in the Murchison meteorite, being 2.5 billion years older than Earth itself