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TIL Optometrists Must Provide You a Copy of Your Prescription After an Eye Exam. It is Referred to as the Eye Glass Rule.

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kOVAB TIL the Cameroon olive pigeon (Columba sjostedti) is found in the dense misty forests and gullies from 1000 up to 2500m in elevation in Cameroon and adjacent Nigeria. It eats pulpy fruits and hard seeds. It has bluish gray plumage; yellow eyepatches, beak and feet; and white spotting on its breast.
Yp1KB TIL that despite popular belief, John D. Rockefeller was not a self-made man. He was born into a modestly propertied family, received a $1,000 loan from his father for his first business (around $30,000 today), and profited immensely off the federal government (i.e. taxpayers) during the Civil War.
GYvr1 TIL that while writing the popular 1990s song Friday I'm in Love, The Cure frontman Robert Smith became convinced that he stole the tune from somewhere, and was so paranoid that he called every person he knew and played the song for them, asking if they recognized it. It was, indeed, unique.
oBpk7 TIL about Dinah, a slave woman who alerted of two British soldiers attempting to burn Stenton Hall in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, and saved the legacy home from arson. However, she was only recognized by the Stenton Hall legacy as "Faithful Colored Caretaker".
R6Ol TIL that pistachios are classified under the Class 4.2 of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods code: Flammable Solids (Substances Liable to Spontaneous Combustion). Fresh pistachios, if stacked under pressure, can burst into flames and cause a cargo fire.