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TIL in this BBC video that ibex can climb dam walls.

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v1g8L TIL: Dolly Parton has a book gifting program called the Imagination Library, which gifts free books every month to children, from birth until school
aDr0 TIL There is an island near Italy that was the site of wars, a dumping ground for plague victims and an insane asylum. It’s considered so dangerously haunted that the Italian government does not allow public access.
9wEDm TIL that Charles Barbier invented "night writing," a raised-dot writing system for the blind in 1815 years before Louis Braille adapted and refined it into the system we use today. Despite being mostly forgotten, Barbier laid the foundation for tactile literacy.
WD68 TIL In 1964, the inventor Karl Kroyer once filled a sunken ship with 27 million plastic balls to make it lighter and easy to remove. He then tried to patent the idea but failed as examiner found the same method used by Donald duck in a comic book in 1949, 15 years before.
NNNN TIL Approximately 75% of the world’s population is lactose intolerant. The 25% of people who aren’t are generally of North European descent.