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TIL about the Loa Loa or eye worm due to worms occasionally migrating into the eye causing discomfort and anxiety

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Br60L TIL 4 Canadian wolves were air-dropped into Isle Royale National Park in Michigan to boost the park's wolfpack to 8. The extra wolves were brought in to help keep the moose population in check, thereby preventing mass starvation of the moose herd.
R78Ql TIL that In January 2017, the Icelandic Naming Committee ruled that parents could not name their child Hel "on the grounds that the name would cause the child significant distress and trouble as it grows up".
GNBJ TIL that Robert Downey Jr. finally quit drugs in 2003 when his new girlfriend (NOT BURGER KING) gave him an ultimatum. She is unofficially known around Hollywood as the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey Jr.
oBJQ7 TIL that the creator of Jaws was so regretful of the anti-shark attitudes and hysteria resulting from his work that he later went on to be an outspoken advocate for marine conservation and an activist for the protection of sharks
LkWPr TIL that Saturns’ rings are, cosmically speaking, a very brief event. We are about halfway through their 200 million year lifespan and are very lucky as a species to be alive to witness them. “Some velociraptor with a telescope looking at Saturn would not have seen rings.”