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TIL “Kintsukuroi” is the Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

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nvnY TIL Mark Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s Comet and predicted he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
l79a TIL Steve Nash divorced his wife right after she gave birth because he realized the baby was not his, but his teammates.
1gPO TIL Fraser Island, Australia, is the largest Island to be entirely made out of sand.
oRM9R TIL that Papua New Guinea still recognizes the British monarch as their ceremonial head of state.
8dyG TIL of the 1914 Christmas Truce. After months of fighting, German and Allied artillery fell silent, and Christmas carols filled the air instead. Both parties got out of their trenches and exchanged food, and held friendly football matches.