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TIL: Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest contributors to astronomy, couldn’t see the stars/planets due to small-pox he contracted as a child.

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rRrKo TIL that bulldogs can’t get pregnant or give birth naturally. They have to be artificially inseminated and then have a c-section. They technically should be extinct.
y6lV TIL that a white guy from Canada is in the Guinness Book of World Records twice for having the best selling reggae single in US history, as well as the highest charting reggae single in history.
5YKb8 TIL about the 2005 IKEA riots in Edmonton, London. The new shop was open for only 30 minutes before a literal riot had broken out resulting in 5 hospitalisations and one stabbing.
16klV TIL that "U and non-U English" was a British theory of dialects in the 1950s that noted that the aspiring middle classes actually used "more refined" language than the upper classes - like "pardon?" instead of "what?", and to "pass on" instead of to "die"
LnEp TIL about a match between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal where they played on a court which had clay surface on one side and grass on the other. At that time, Federer was undefeated on grass courts for 5 years and Nadal was undefeated on clay for 3 years.