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TIL Locks of Love charges patients and their families for their services.

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k5p1 TIL that hurricanes and cyclones cannot cross the equator.
nyEP TIL An Austrian collector has found what may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs
dyRK TIL Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
9wBWD TIL about William Ellsworth Robinson, a white American man who performed magic under the name "Chung Ling Soo", pretending to be a Chinese man who spoke no English. The only time he spoke English while performing was when he was mistakenly shot and killed while performing a bullet catch trick.
Vak4 TIL Net-casting spiders’ (Deinopidae) spiders eyes are more sensitive than cats or owls, which they use for hunting at night. So sensitive, in fact, that they need to rebuild their retinas every day because they are destroyed at dawn.