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TIL that 90% of people who spend 3 or more hours a day on the computer, will suffer Computer Vision Syndrome (Under the “Prevalence” section)

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KYKN6 TIL when Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote in the 1904 election, he won by the largest popular vote margin since James Monroe in 1820.
b9p7Z TIL Nancy Wake was a secret agent during WWII. In 1944, she led 7000 guerrillas to defeat 22000 German soldiers, killing 1400 Germans and only losing 100 men. They accounted for 70% of the Germans killed by the French resistance, yet their fatalities made up only 1% of the French resistance deaths.
JYxrQ TIL that until 1956 after the end of British rule, Egypt hadn’t been both fully independent and ruled by native Egyptians for 2500 years
wLrkY TIL In 1959, nine Russian hikers died mysteriously in the Ural Mountains. Known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident," investigators concluded that the nine died could have died of a "compelling natural force" known as infrasound-induced panic
ADGon TIL that as a result of the investigation into serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Russian police solved more than more than 1000 unrelated crimes, including 95 murders, 140 aggravated assaults, and 245 molestations.