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TIL it's okay to look directly at the total solar eclipse
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TIL Myopia is extremely uncommon among nonhuman primates but researchers can easily induce it by depriving infant monkeys of normal outdoor lighting levels. Outdoor lighting is usually about 100 times more intense than what you get inside
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TIL James Madison blamed his 1777 campaign defeat to a less principled opponent on his decision not to provide free liquor to voters on Election Day.
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TIL the world’s biggest living organism is an aspen south of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, made up of 47,000 tree trunks, covering 106 acres and weighing more than 13 million pounds.
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TIL The US army once played a $250 million war game - a lone general defeated the US army in one day. Subsequently the rules were changed to make it impossible for the US to lose.
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TIL that after Einstein’s death in 1955, a small notebook containing his calculations was found. That notebook has been posted online for everyone to see.