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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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gronL TIL that the world's first official airmail flight was conducted in 1911 in India, from Allahabad to Naini, over a distance of 13 km. The letters bore an official frank "First Aerial Post, U.P. Exhibition, Allahabad. 1911"
oRvM7 TIL that between 1998 and 2015, the Defense and Housing and Urban Development departments had reported $21 trillion in "unsupported adjustments". That is, $21 trillion missing in tax payer money; They cannot track it, nor do they know what it was spent on. That's 65,000 lost dollars per American.
GAM47 TIL that different Islamic texts state that women well make up the majority of the people in hell and Heaven. Islamic scholars have attempted to reconcile this contradiction by suggesting that many of the women are only send to hell temporarily before being allowed in Heaven.
j6BBQ TIL that in the Vietnam War, future Nebraska governor Bob Kerrey was complicit in a raid in which troops under his command killed 21 unarmed civilians, mostly children. He then falsely reported them as guerrillas. According to an American and Vietnamese witness, Kerrey had them shot in cold blood.
R7Bnj TIL that the vikings brought native American wives to Iceland, and their DNA is still present on the island.