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TIL that a Chinese rickshaw puller donated 350,000 yuan to enable more than 300 poor students continue with their studies, by the time he passed away at the age of 93 years.

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ne5MY TIL the Japanese stoat (Mustela erminea nippon) is a subspecies of stoat native only to Japan, and there are currently 37 recognized subspecies of stoats in the world. When members of the Mustela genus take on white winter coats, especially stoats, they are often referred to as ermines.
NZP8 TIL that in Nikola Tesla’s elderly years he became obsessed with feeding pigeons particularly a white female one, speaking of her he said “ I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life”
l0d1 TIL that gamers, playing an online protein folding game, helped decipher the structure of an AIDS causing virus in 10 days; It had remained unsolved by scientists for 15 years. Using the same platform, gamers also helped redesign a widely used enzyme, increasing its activity by a factor of 18.
rMO4 TIL of Demi-Lee Brennan, the first liver transplant patient to switch blood groups - at estimated odds of 6 billion to 1. The switch in blood type means the 15-year-old no longer requires life-long consumption of immunosuppressant drugs which are used to stop the body from rejecting a new organ.
RRjj TIL “…Charlie Brown is not bald. Though Charlie Brown is drawn with only a small curl of hair at the front of his head, and a little in the back, Charles M. Schulz has explained that he saw Charlie Brown as having hair that was light and cut short, so that it could not be seen very easily.”