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TIL that Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera when his three year old daughter asked him why she couldn’t see a photo he had taken of her right away.

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Yp8W7 TIL in 1862 General Grant ordered the expulsion of all the Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky
XQYE TIL that healthy adult dingoes take responsibility to keep old and weak dingoes away from food and water so that they quickly die.
ajZo TIL that the guitar riff for ’(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ popped into Keith Richards’ head as he was going to sleep in a hotel one night. He quickly recorded it and went to sleep. When he woke up, he heard the soon to be iconic riff and “then me snoring for the next 40 minutes.”
pmDG TIL Mumbai is the only city in the world to have a fully functioning national park with freely roaming large carnivores, within city limits.
yKDa TIL that a Russian couple were reunited after being separated for 60 years. They were married for 3 days when the husband left to join the Red Army. They were unable to find each other until 60 years later when they randomly visited their hometown on the same day.