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TIL If a baby in a picture has a red eye effect only on one eye the kid might have retinoblastoma (the type of cancer).

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jENn TIL U.S. mint planned to introduce an aluminum penny in the 1970’s but then canceled the plans out of concern that if people ate them doctors wouldn’t be able to detect them with x-rays.
xVdQo TIL laws restricting Chinese people to merchant visas made many Chinese restaurants in the U.S. These visas were only for fancy shops and the person had to run it for a year. Some groups used all their cash to open a nice restaurant and then switch who ran it each year so that they'd all get visas.
l71oA TIL Acronyms are pronounced as if it were a word like “SARS.” Unlike initialisms like “ATM” which are pronounced using the names of its letters.
yKX8 TIL that the Ancient Romans had a festival in which the Slaves and Slave Owners would switch places.
o5QY TIL O'Hare airport is named after an American fighter pilot who was the lone defender during a attack on his carrier, then was killed leading the first night defense against a Kamikaze attack. Two years earlier, his own father was murdered for being the only man willing to testify against Al Capone.