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TIL there’s a laser procedure being developed that safely breaks up brown eye pigment (melanin) in the iris. Effectively changing one's eye color from brown to blue, since blue eyes exist under all brown eyes.

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E1knV TIL that Triscuit got its name in the early 1900s because it was one of the first foods to be baked with elecTRIcity
yQKmM TIL of the Diverging Diamond Interchange; a type of highway interchange in which the directional roadways of the non freeway road switch over each other either temporarily using under/overpasses or traffic signals, making it simpler to enter and exit the freeway.
neZPo TIL that there are North Korean labor camps in Siberia, Russia.
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