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TIL the reason we see stars/shapes when we rub our eyes is because our brain doesnt know the difference between light and pressure when either stimulates the cells in our eyes

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loPM5 TIL that one of the reasons the Cottingley Fairies photos weren't revealed as fake for so long (over 60 years) was because the girls who took them didn't want to make a fool out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had believed they were real and wrote about the fairies as a psychic phenomenon
d90j TIL some mustard gas effects, once declassified, allowed the chemicals to be utilized to treat cancer. Mustard gas science is the precursor to chemotherapy.
yQXNe TIL that in Norway, the maximum prison sentence for a crime is 21 years. Norway also has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world, at just 20%.
WNpY TIL that chocolate as we know it may run out in 2020 due to worldwide shortage of cocoa
LkP0P TIL that the longest traffic jam, which happened in August 2010 in Beijing, China, lasted for a tremendous 12 days in a 62-mile(100 km) road. Its cause was the road work on the highway and many vehicles clogging all over the road