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TIL- In France, you can sign up for a service where the postman pop in and check on your elderly parents to make sure they're all right.

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MeRl0 TIL Work at Bell Labs resulted in 9 Nobel Prizes & 4 Turing Awards. Bell laid the first transoceanic phone cable, mapped dark matter, created radio astronomy, the transistor, laser, solar cell, information theory, Unix, C & C++, error detection, cell phones, optical tweezers, electron lithography.
QNR7L TIL that the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope was actually published several months before the release of the film, rather than the other way around
Lkrdr TIL a Troy ounce of Gold is more than twice as valuable as a Troy ounce of platinum
PY7pZ TIL that Leanach Cottage on Culloden Battlefield is the only remaining building from the battle in 1746
8XYV TIL that in order to protect his garden, a retired French doctor infected the rabbits with myxomatosis virus. The virus later resulted in a 98% decline in rabbit population in Europe. As a consequence predators like Iberian Lynx’s population also declined.