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TIL that the cornea has no blood supply, and oxygen instead diffuses into it directly from the air.

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rRgbd TIL Nik Wallenda was the first person in over a century to cross the Niagara falls on a tightrope, which required two years of work to get a special dispensation, costed over a million dolars, and had to carry with him his passport to present it when he arrived at the Canadian side.
6EpyW TIL of the Shiva Crater, an impact crater off the Arabian coast, caused by an asteroid Comet about 66 million years ago. The Indian mainland had just broken off from Africa and Dinosaurs roamed all over India then. This collision along with others probably eradicated them.
X0B0X TIL that out of 20,000 people the Khmer Rouge sent to Cambodia's notorious S-21 prison, only 12 survived
6Eeom TIL there is a law that states every high school in New Zealand may hold one pound of uranium and one pound of thorium for conducting nuclear experiments, but they will be fined $1,000,000 should there be a nuclear explosion.
9LBD TIL if an odd number of golfers make the cut at the Masters, they have a member named Jeff Knox fill in, who has bet against and beaten some of the best golfers in the world