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TIL a human cyclops was born in India and lived for 24 hours.

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nWLAW TIL that Dr. Maya Angelou recorded an album of duets with Jessica Mitford's cowbell and kazoo band Decca and the Dectones, Jessica Mitford being the author of “The American Way of Death” and the younger sister of Adolf Hitler's girlfriend Unity Mitford.
J4Ql TIL that in Japan, avid golfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the course. They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy gifts and drinks for their friends. The policy covers them for a party worth up to $4,900.
0dXw5 TIL: Humans and bananas share about 40 to 60 percent of the same DNA
8eMAa TIL the last surviving former slave in the US, Peter Mills died in 1972, aged 110 after being involved in a pedestrian accident
W74oX TIL the Rio Negro Bridge is the only major bridge across the Amazon or any tributary in the Amazon