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TIL The reason pirates wore eye-patches was so that one eye was always used to the dark, making it easier to see quickly when going below deck.

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X0vGD Today I learned that Alexander the Great, who conquered a good section of the world, was only 32 years old when died.
kO80E TIL that a member of parliament for the Pirate Party, the third largest political party in Iceland, was forced to wear an eyepatch following a household accident.
woVbJ TIL that after abolishing slavery in 1794, France reinstated it in 1802, only finally to abolish it again in 1848.
XELAE TIL everyone who works at Ben & Jerry’s headquarters in Burlington, Vt., is entitled to three free pints of ice cream for each day of work
8aXRb TIL That 1500 languages are stored on a disk the size of a nickel. These languages are etched in 13000 pages which you can read after 1000x magnification.