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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.

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xyr1 TIL that some believe humans are the only animals with the ability to ask questions. Chimps that learned sign language can answer, but never ask questions. Responsorial singing (one person calls, group responds) might be the way humans started asking and answering questions.
KVdR TIL The Woman of Seine was the unknown woman whose body was pulled out of the Seine River.A post-mortem pathologist at the morgue was so taken by her beauty that he made a plaster cast death mask of her face.Now that mask is used as the face of the CPR mannequin and is the most kissed face on earth.
Yp9wd [TIL] that in the 1940's, the US built some locomotives for the USSR. When they were never delivered due to the cold war, they went to US railroads and became some of the most powerful engines of the day.
rR6Dy TIL about Diederik Stapel, a Dutch Social Psychologist who falsified data in over 30 publications. "Discoveries" he made using falsified data included the finding that meat-eaters are more selfish than vegetarians.
eAw5 TIL that during WWII, there was an independent committee that rooted out corruption and profiteering. It is credited with saving 14bn dollars and thousands of lives - yet frequent calls for a modern version have not been heard.