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TIL that the correlation between kids spending time indoors reading books and poor eyesight is due to Vitamin D deficiency.

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e0kYn TIL about Tapputi, a Babylonian perfume-maker widely considered to be the world's first chemist. A cuneiform tablet from 1200 BCE describes one of her perfumes, made from flowers, oils, balsam, myrrh, and various solvents.
nedXr TIL Cuban family winery uses condoms during fermentation process
4XGOR TIL in 1997, a murderer was identified through DNA evidence for a 1996 murder. However, it was too late to prosecute her because she had since died in the infamous ValuJet Florida plane crash that killed 110 people.
DQ5mj TIL the singular of “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”
ARNl TIL that in Toronto, 1933, an amateur baseball game broke out into a massive race riot when a group of Nazi sympathizers, protesting the Jewish players, unveiled a crude Swastika flag. “A crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob.”