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TIL there is a village in the Netherlands specifically for Old people with Dementia to live and lead normal lives surrounded by professional care. Everything there is free.

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ob7Y TIL if an octopus gets stressed out, it might self-cannibalize and eat it’s own limbs.
Mejm TIL when you blush, the lining of your stomach also blushes (becomes more red) too
b6J1Z TIL Robert C. Campbell, a Captain in the British Army in WWI. Captured as a prisoner of war by Imperial Germany in 1914, he was held in captivity for two years before appealing to the Kaiser for a visit to his dying mother. He was allowed and voluntarily returned to POW Camp until the end of the War
xvN0 TIL that after a wave of teen suicides in the 1980s, the media, following guidelines from CDC, carefully and voluntarily avoided sensationalizing the deaths and to a large extent stopped reporting on them
x60gb TIL Babybel cheese held a competition for the best Babybel cheese wax sculpture last year. The winner won $1500 (Australian Dollars) for his sculpture "Three Cheeky Mice". Babybel recreated and displayed a giant version of the sculpture using 20,000 cheeses worth of wax.