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earnest-peer:

multiheaded1793:

kontextmaschine:

Occasional reminder that radial keratotomy and the entire field of vision-corrective surgery come from this one Soviet kid who got hit in the face with a soccer ball so the shards of his glasses cut up his eyes exactly the right way

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_keratotomy#History\u00a0TIL!

He didn’t get hit with a soccer ball, he fell off his bike! And the correction came from the cuts by the surgeon, not from the glass! Still a very fun coincidence.

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Oh gosh even on the fortunate occasion received knowledge was inaccurate!

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