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TIL A neon light was left on and covered over in a downtown LA restaurant, then found again still working after 77 years.

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Qoba TIL Koko the gorilla has an IQ between 70 and 95, equal to a below-average but high functioning human
R7KB9 TIL that instead of portraits, rich Filipinos during the 1800s commissioned artists to creatively form letters of their patron's name into different human figures, animals, plants, and other objects.
oRyZW TIL "Creature" (also know as "the titan find") 1985, an Aliens inspired horror sci-fi movie, is in the public domain. its early special effects were done by the Skotak brothers, who would go on to make the effects for Aliens (1986).
jNZWQ TIL Moldova is the least visited country in Europe with only 11,000 visitors each year.
jNmkR TIL about #OpJustina which was an attack on Boston Children’s Hospital to demand the release of Justina Pelletier— a little girl being held against her will by the state of Massachusetts. She was taken from her parents after the hospital thought her mitochondrial illness was psychological.