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TIL Some children who develop myopia (nearsightedness) have a continual progression of their myopia throughout the school years, including high school. Myopia is one of the most common eye disorders in the world and by 2050, roughly half of the world's population will be nearsighted

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AN9l7 TIL Joaquin Phoenix's older brother, River Phoenix, was set to play Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995), Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995) & Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). After his death in 1993, all these roles ultimately went to Leonardo DiCaprio.
wP4Y TIL that the the ‘zero’ was invented by an Indian mathematician Aryabhata
njNP TIL that despite the extreme cold in Antartica, there is a portion of it at it’s center that has no ice. This is due to a “dry valley” instance where precipitation does not enter (and thus no ice is created).
gMoP4 TIL that when a critic insulted the nudity in Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, the painter punished him by painting the critic's likeness onto the body of Minos, the judge of the underworld; he then further insulted the critic by giving the likeness donkey ears and having a snake bite his genitals.
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