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TIL Inspired by her father’s inability to read and write Dolly Parton started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans five countries and gifts over 2 million free books each month to children around the world.

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6EkLw TIL that on ZZ Top's best selling album "Eliminator" bassist Duty Hill and drummer Frank Beard received album credits but did not attend most of the recording sessions. The album consists almost entirely of Billy Gibbons accompanied by electronically synthesized bass and drums.
Oo1p1 TIL about the Dragon Lily, a plant that can actually heat itself up to make itself more comfortable for pollinating insects.
oBOV7 TIL in 2016, a 14-year-old male masturbated with an entire 60-gram tube of BENGAY® and got salicylate poisoning as the product contains methylsalicylate (which is broken down to salicylic acid in the body) and scrotal skin can absorb certain substances up to 40 times better than other skin regions
awJDb Today I learned that York, William Clark's slave, was one of the first Africans that the Native Americans West of the Mississippi River met. They tried to wash the blackness off of him, and when they discovered that he was in fact human they respected his strength.
Yp1gr TIL there's a predator in Madagascar that looks like a feline, behaves like a feline, has vertical pupils, retractable claws, whiskers etc, but it's actually a mongoose. There are no felines in Madagascar, so mongooses evolved into feline-like animals to fulfill their role in the food chain.