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TIL that Scotland's national animal is the unicorn

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yN5X TIL: A confidential study by the music industry downplays filesharing and suggests 70% of all unpaid music comes from offline swapping.
9YjdD TIL about Georgia Tann, a woman who stole about 5000 babies from poor parents.
mx71v TIL Physicians in the 2nd Century believed the womb would move around the body and was responsible for a number of ailments.
gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
Gjdg TIL Hans Christian Andersen struck a friendship with Charles Dickens but wore out his welcome when his visit to Dickens’ home stretched out to five weeks