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TIL Abraham Lincoln had strabismus, aka a “lazy eye”. His left eye was said to roll upwards when he was tired or exited.

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VaxB TIL there is only one instance in history that a submarine managed to intentionally sunk another submerged submarine in combat.
X0VW6 TIL Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, also known as Yayōsu, was a Dutch navigator who became one of the first known Western samurai and the only Dutch samurai in history. He was an advisor and interpreter to the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and there is an area in Tokyo named after him.
M76dm TIL praying mantises can hear frequencies above the range of human hearing, and are the only animals with one ear.
ANNwx TIL that in 2007 a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force led to a bomb scare and 2 million dollars in damages
Vk5k TIL that a Thai woman accidentally slipped on “farmyard mud,” grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death. After the funeral, her sister was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death.