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TIL A man in Mexico hung thousands of dolls and doll parts from trees to please the spirit of a girl he found dead on an island known as the “Island of the Dolls”

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X0jpX TIL that LED headlights are illegal if they're not original equipment
rNn5d TIL that Jupiter's magnetic field has one big North Pole, and two South Poles, one located directly in the south, and one located in an isolated patch near equator.
0w5by TIL In a study on lung cancer patients, 48% of subjects had quit smoking prior to diagnosis, usually easily, despite prior attempts. Lung cancer tumors secrete a substance that disrupts nicotine addiction, but the study was buried because scientists worried it would encourage people to keep smoking.
0wZ1j TIL of Ines Ramirez, who was forty years old, far from medical assistance and struggling during a difficult birth. She cut into her own abdomen with a kitchen knife and delivered her son, becoming the only person to have performed a Caesarean section on herself.
1aMOP TIL that the ISS(International Space Station) orbits 250 miles(410km) above the surface of the Earth. This would be near equivalent to the straight line distance of San Antonio, Texas to Dallas, Texas.