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TIL about starfish use hydraulic systems to move themselves around

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epLE TIL The first fitted contact lenses were made in 1888 out of blown glass.
gNxD TIL of the Asian brown cloud, a layer of air pollution that appears over South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January and March when there is no rain to wash pollutants from the air. Nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.
R7bx7 TIL in 2009 a man dressed as Santa robbed a Tennessee bank claiming he needed the money to "pay his elves"
kOnKW TIL that Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was a proponent of LSD and believed that regular usage of LSD would be beneficial for many recovering alcoholics.
wLa8J TIL: The Wreck of the Sultana was the Worst Maritime Disaster In American History, killing 1,800 on board.