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TIL that Sweden has raccoon dogs

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OoXmX TIL that not only can eyeballs be rugby-ball shaped (astigmatism) instead of basket-ball shaped, but one in 2000 people have a cornea shaped like the top of The Gherkin, rather than the O2 Arena. This is called Keratoconus and causes blurred vision, but not blindness.
ZpKjQ TIL that the billionaire founder of Alibaba Jack Ma was rejected from every job he tried to apply for after college. For example, he applied to KFC and was the only person out of 24 applicants to not be hired.
7r0RO TIL Stalin was photographed with three deputies. The first deputy fell out of favour and was doctored out of the photo. The second duty eventually fell out of favour and was also removed. After the last deputy fell out of favour, only Stalin remained in the re-re-re-edited photo.
8ywK TIL that there is a bug that evolved to have actual mechanical gears
4XWgb TIL that in 2017 it was revealed that UN peacekeepers operated a child sex ring in Haiti for over 10 years and no one went to jail