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TIL: "Braces for your eyes" exist. Corrective nighttime contact lenses so no contacts are worn during the day.

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jNxdj TIL of that time Peter Jackson tried to get Lee to scream as he was stabbed, only to be corrected. "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?" Lee said he asked Jackson. "Because I do."
0wAAj TIL the tomb of Louis XIV of France was ransacked during the French Revolution. By 1848, part of his mummified heart had fallen into the possession of the Archbishop of York. He showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who proceeded to eat it.
Ve4B TIL that the postal code of the North Pole is H0H 0H0 in reference to Santa
KOEAR TIL that Dinner was once the main meal of the day, served around one or two in the afternoon, while 'supper' was a much lighter meal, or even just a snack, eaten around sundown.
4XVKX TIL 358 millions years ago Earth was in the Carboniferous period, during that age oxygen levels were 15 percent higher than today thanks to the abundance of plant life, which meant scorpions were the size of dogs, a caterpillar was the size of an anaconda and dragonfly's were size of eagles