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TIL: The Pittsburgh Parking Chair is a thing

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byOZ TIL that Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, formally donated his birthday by deed of gift to a friend’s daughter who felt cheated that her own birthday was December 25th.
EMYd TIL Titanium is the most bio-compatible metal, and new bone tissue will bond with it at the atomic level.
rRbVx TIL of Rinderpest: A virus seen in cows and other ungulates that's been totally eradicated throughout the entire world.
R7rR7 TIL that Henry Ford used his personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, to argue that "the Jew" had caused WWI. He placed these newspapers in every new Model T automobile.
XE64D TIL Common ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals. The wolves open the carcass, leaving the scraps more accessible to the birds.