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TIL a student in Germany can shrink and enlarge his pupils on demand

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a8ejJ TIL Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish neurologist that escaped Nazi Germany, founded what would become the Paralympic Games in 1948 with the Stoke Mandeville Games. Guttmann believed sport was a major form of therapy for disabled people
Z8O14 TIL that in Feb 2009, the Submarines 'HMS Vangaurd' and 'Le Troimphant' collided in the Atlantic Ocean as neither saw the other on aproach. Both submarines had nuclear weapons on board.
b9e80 TIL that during the naval Battle of Tsushima in 1905, the Japanse fleet kept firing on the surrendering Russian ships as the Japanse code books didn't contain the signal for "surrender"
5V1eR TIL archaeologists working in a 2,500 y.o. Chinese cemetery unearthed charred incense burners and burnt stones that tested high for cannabinol, which is released when THC is burned. "Unlike many wild varieties, the cannabis smoked at the site [...] was pretty potent stuff."
OnPX TIL That Charlie Chaplin was payed $10,000 a week in 1915.