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TIL greeting cards that play music contain mercury, making them unsafe to discard in the normal trash.

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GV4N TIL During a major Civil War battle, both armies briefly stopped fighting to watch a fist fight between two opposing soldiers who had both taken cover in the same place.
NXQm1 TIL that in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo, Splinter also shares his name with a famous Renaissance artist - 'Lo Scheggia' or 'The Splinter'
aAKN TIL: There is a method being tested to allow female same-sex couples to have children that are 100% biologically “theirs”.
awV7o TIL about "Moon Trees", trees whose seeds have orbited the moon on Apollo 14. Many are still alive today.
ymoe TIL of Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who took third in the 1968 Olympics and the third athlete in the iconic black power photo. He was shunned in his home country from that moment on for his often unnoticed presence in the photograph.