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TIL, Usain Bolt Foundation, donated J$1,500,000.00 to his former Alma mater (William Knibb Memorial High School),

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AoRa TIL Many European zoologists believed that birds hibernated under the sea or flew to the moon in winter until 1822, when a stork was found in Germany with an arrow from Central Africa embedded in its neck, providing the first clear evidence of migration.
Ooloa TIL that not all toasters use the numbers on the dial to determine toastiness.
4kaKR TIL the person shouting exclamations in the song “She Blinded Me With Science” was an actual scientist. Magnus Pyke wrote dozens of scientific papers, was a government advisor in the Ministry of Food, and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire