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TIL Hawaii’s ecosystem has no seagulls (travelopea.com)
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TIL how one Japanese artist spent six months trekking 3000 miles through Japan with a GPS tracker to spell out ‘Marry Me’ across islands (www.yahoo.com)
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TIL The first case of a DUI was a London Cabbie named George Smith who was swerving all over the place on September 10th, 1897 shortly after midnight. He was fined 20 schillings and told to be more... (blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
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TIL that symbols to denote irony or sarcasm in print have been around since at least the 1500s (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL The proposed Helsinki-Tallinn Railway Tunnel, when completed, will be the largest underground tunnel in the world. It will help to reduce time to cross the current Gulf of Finland route from tw... (www.railway-technology.com)
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TIL that in 2014 Steven Seagal released a Jamaican Dancehall song called "Strut" featuring the most x-rated local female artist of that time. He sings the song in a fake Jamaican accent. (www.youtube.com)
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TIL Helen Viola Jackson who died in December 2020 was the last surviving civil war veteran’s spouse. She was married to someone alive at the time of Abraham Lincoln (people.com)
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TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best. (www.insider.com)
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TIL that new chemotherapy can kill all solid tumors in animal trials and the treatment will now begin trials on humans. (interestingengineering.com)
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TIL a physician successfully avoided incriminating DNA evidence being gathered from him for 5 years by implanting a tube of foreign blood and anticoagulants in his arm, from which he made sure all ... (www.wikipedia.org)
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TIL, Water intoxication can happen if you drink too much water too fast and can be deadly (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: TIL that marshmallows were originally made from a plant called marshmallow (mallows that grew in marshes). The root of the marshmallow plant is high in mucilage, which is a type of gel that gi... (en.wikipedia.org)
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