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TIL “Killing Season” is a British medical term used to describe the time around August, when the newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service

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awMBL TIL about manual babbling. Deaf children or children born to deaf parents babble with their hands instead of vocalized babbling. Thus indicating that babbling is not nonsense, but instead an important part of language acquisition.
OG157 TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio and the crew on his boat helped rescue a man who had been treading water for about 11 hours after falling overboard in the Caribbean Sea.
XE1nR TIL that diamond, despite being the hardest material known, will shatter if hit with a hammer. Hardness means resistance to scratching; toughness is a different property.
0wYP1 TIL how blind people use the iPhone using Braille Screen Input
oBBZo TIL The opening flamenco guitar intro heard on the Beatles track, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" was actually a prerecorded setting played from a Mellotron synthesizer.