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TIL that Twitter's bird logo is named Larry after Larry Bird.

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xVByo TIL of Sila Sutharat, a roadside vendor in Phetchaburi, Thailand, who for 20 years has used a grill made of 1,000 mirrors to focus sunlight to cook chicken and pork. A chicken cooks in about 12 minutes.
OZk1 TIL that to prevent the Nazis from discovering two fellow scientist’s gold Nobel prizes, Niels Bohr had them dissolved in aqua regia. They were then stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was extracted and re-cast by the Nobel Foundation
v1B4B TIL that In 2011, S.N.C.F., the French state railway company, apologized to victims of the Holocaust after lawmakers in the United States moved to block it from winning contracts there if the firm did not acknowledge its role in the shipping of Jews to death camps.
gMDAW TIL Commercial bread contains an ingredient derived from human hair: l-cysteine
N7ybe TIL about Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest animal on land at 187 years old.