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TIL that people with blue eyes are more prone to light sensitivity because of a lack of pigment in the eye.

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Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island
8nVX TIL When Stephen Hawking’s first wife, Jane, saw the movie script for The Theory of Everything, she deleted all the F-words, saying “Scientists in the 1960s and 70s didn’t use the F-word and I’m pretty sure they don’t now either.”
KYv1J TIL Jeanne Calment, a French woman who is credited as the oldest person to ever live, having lived to 122yo. In 1965, at 90yo, she sold her French apartment in exchange for a right of occupancy and a monthly revenue of €380, until her death. She received double the value of the property by 1995.
QJOke TIL about Otávio Jordão da Silva, a 20 year old Brazilian soccer/football referee who was stoned, beheaded, and quartered by spectators after he stabbed a player who punched him for making a controversial call. His head was put on a stake in the field.
neopo TIL 95% of individuals in the witness protection program are criminals, but only 10% of these people re-offend. Ex-prisoners have a recidivism rate of 65%+