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TIL Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.

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Ka1R TIL of Oscar the Cat who predicted when people in his nursing home were about to die with such accuracy that staff would call relatives.
4kgNg TIL that Wat Misaka (b. 1923 - d. 2019), a second-generation Japanese American was the first non-white professional basketball player and the first person of Asian descent to play in the NBA, known back then as the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
b9VM9 TIL according to Buddhism, at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is no "eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman". Nirvana, or liberation, is defined as the blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has "no self, no soul".
VMYQZ TIL that in 1971, Private Eye magazine responded to a legal threat by telling the complainant to “fuck off”.
ZpYPY TIL about uranium glassware, where small samples of uranium were melted into glass before forming to create a wider range of colors. This practice stopped in the 40s and pieces now are highly sought by collectors.