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TIL if someone accidentally sends you something by mail that you didn’t pay for, you don’t have an obligation to pay for it or return it.

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QJKk TIL the USA flag used in the late 50’s was designed by a 17 year old kid for a school project, to which he got a B-. He submitted the flag to congress as a joke and they accepted it.
4YM5 TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
4V9J TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional character Smaug has a ‘conservattive,’ estimated net worth of 61 billion.
nWnXd TIL that cardiovascular diseases cause an estimated 17.9 million deaths per year, most often (4 out of 5) through heart attack and stroke. One third of these deaths occur prematurely, or under the age of 70.
e0KEb TIL that after his infant son was seriously injured in an accident, the author Roald Dahl helped to invent a medical device, the Dahl-Wade-Till shunt. The device has since been used to help over 3000 children worldwide.