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TIL that humans glow in the dark, but the light is 1,000 times weaker than the human eye can perceive

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d8NKd TIL of the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders where all of the wait staff are living with dementia. They may get your orders wrong but the restaurant promotes a sense of openness and understanding.
lovDA TIL of the Nazino Affair, a brutal USSR plan in which 6,000 political prisoners and criminals were rounded up and deported to an isolated island in Western Siberia, surrounded by guards and left only with flour. The society soon descended into anarchy and cannibalism; 4,000 died after only a month.
nexbG TIL of The Shaggs: three teenage sisters forced to play in a band by their father. Almost completely musically inept, their album failed to gain any traction until years after it was recorded, when Frank Zappa claimed it was one of his favorite albums of all time.
x6VBw TIL The Apple program HyperCard, a precursor to the first web browsers, was inspired by an acid trip that Apple engineer Bill Atkinson had
p8yRQ TIL that In Switzerland rabies was virtually eliminated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with live attenuated vaccine in the Swiss Alps, which the foxes (the main carriers of the virus) ate and therefore immunized themselves.