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TIL Allen Swift received a 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly Phantom I new and maintained it meticulously before dying in 2005 as the oldest living person to own a car from new.

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j6VXE TIL: The Kanbari Nyūdō is a Japanese yokai(demon/ghost) that haunts bathrooms and spies on people as they are using the toilet on New Year's Eve. Encountering one brings bad luck for the new year. To counter it say "ganbari nyūdō, hototogisu!” (“ganbari priest, cuckoo!”) before using the toilet.
7r66X TIL that after Hippocrates started going bald, he prescribed himself a topical concoction of opium, horseradish, pigeon droppings, beetroot, and spices. After noticing that eunuchs never went bald, he also prescribed castration to prevent hair loss - and researchers in 1995 proved that to be true
wLx1J TIL Sir John Francis Davis served as Governor of Hong Kong and was a renowned scholar on Chinese history and culture. Davis sent an armed force to capture ports and occupied the Canton factories to secure British rights of entry
Z8BgY TIL Star Trek: The Animated Series was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy.
KO05E TIL human babies are helpless because we walk upright. Walking upright requires a narrow pelvis, in which our large head/brain would get stuck during birth, so babies are born with a smaller head/brain that develops more after birth, compared to other mammals.