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TIL TVs were banned in Bhutan until June of 1999

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neVGB TIL Rosacea helps to maintain antimicrobial peptide levels during UV-deficient winters to combat life-threatening microbial infections, such as lupus vulgaris. Therefore, rosacea should not be considered as a disadvantage, but as evolution's blessing of the Celts which improved their survival.
kJn1W TIL There is a spot in the retina where the nerves carrying all the information run out, or the blind spot. A King of France amused himself during boring sessions with courtiers by “cutting off their heads” by looking at one and watching another’s head disappear
xV9PD TIL In 1995 a man from australia committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. He then shot himself in the head with a pistol. When both failed he used the shotgun and shot his throat and jaw. Finally he walked two hundred metres & shot himself in the heart
jNjPR TIL the Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world
8Qlb TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay in which he encouraged scientists to find ways of “improving the odor of human flatulence.”