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TIL A Texas lawyer killed himself as Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting

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neD5P TIL That In 2050, Half of the Worlds population Will Be Nearsighted, Researchers expect eyesight to worsen across the globe thanks to more screens and less time outdoors.
Lkb5V TIL about red-collar crime: when white collar criminals use violence to silence those investigating them
b9j9Z TIL the overworld theme from the original Super Mario Bros is based off "Sister Marian" by T-Square.
5YnrR TIL sufferers from Anton–Babinski syndrome are blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing.
71Pp TIL Dust from the Sahara desert has produced a massive carbon sink in the Bahamas, and humans could mimic nature by artificially repeating the process elsewhere