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TIL the writer Julie Birchill wrote of suicide that it's "nice for young men finally to find something that they’re better at than girls". Her own son later took his own life

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N7YLN TIL about the Rainman Twins. Kay and Flo are the only identical twin autistic savant sisters to exist.
WjQX TIL when the space station Skylab fell to Earth in 1979, it landed in Esperance, Western Australia. The Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering, which went unpaid for 30 years until a radio host raised the money and paid it on behalf of NASA.
gMmy TIL doctors in the last decade have stopped removing the appendix during other surgical procedures as a routine precaution, because it can be successfully transplanted into the urinary tract to rebuild a sphincter muscle and reconstruct a functional bladder
xVZOD TIL: The Causes Behind the World becoming more Destabilised, has little to do with Race but alot to do with Bad Business.
yQPd8 TIL that the stripes you see on a tiger's fur also appear on their skin beneath. These stripes are similar to fingerprints, in that no two tigers have the same pattern.