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TIL Pablo Neruda always wrote in green ink because he considered it the color of hope.

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GY1Y1 TIL American captives in the Vietnam war would authenticate a new prisoner’s American identity by tapping the first five notes of “Shave and a Haircut”, against a cell wall, and waiting for the appropriate response
nNdG TIL Cows have a distinct moo if they come from different regions of the World.
N7ZyJ TIL of the 250 plutonium-powered pacemakers Medtronic manufactured, 22 were still in service more than 25 years later, a feat that no battery-powered pacemaker could achieve
v1vw8 TIL: Until the late 1400s the word ‘girl’ just meant a child of either sex. If you had to differentiate between them, male children were referred to as ‘knave girls’ and females were ‘gay girls‘.
W76N8 TIL that Dolly Parton considered suicide in the 1980s. Her dog "Popeye" jumped on her and distracted her from following through.