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TIL… for every £1 that British skydivers raise for charity, the NHS spends £13 treating their injuries.

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69Pmm TIL about turkey tails and their connection to obesity in the Pacific Islands.
oBVxY TIL Tigers cannot purr. To show happiness, tigers squint or close their eyes. This is because losing vision lowers defense, so tigers only purposefully do so when they feel comfortable and safe
GYxp4 TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
J11Nv TIL that two other people were planned to be assassinated the night Abraham Lincoln was. One of them was Lincoln's Vice President Andrew Johnson. The man assigned to kill him instead got drunk instead and couldn't work up the nerve to do it.
d8117 TIL that the oldest person alive(120) sold her apartment at the age of 90 in exchange for monthly payments of 400€ until she died. The person she sold it to died at 77. Their family still had to pay her.