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TIL that old calendars can be reused.

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R7gVa TIL box jellyfish have 24 eyes. 8 of them are image-forming and structurally similar to human eyes, while the other 16 are thought to sense only the intensity of incoming light from all directions.
ZpExa TIL Titanic passenger Edgar Samuel Andrew was so angry he had to board Titanic, he wrote in a letter on April 8, 1912: "... right now I wish the 'Titanic' were lying at the bottom of the ocean." Week later, his wish came true.
6prQ TIL Isaac Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His books have been published in 9 of 10 major categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification. He is the 17th most-translated author, just behind Arthur Conan Doyle and ahead of Pope John Paul II
nWam9 TIL in 1962 there was a serious laughing epidemic in Tanzania that spread across towns and caused people to laugh uncontrollably. It lasted for several months.
jNaQE TIL in 1959, some of Volkswagen's cars made in that year had a built-in coffee maker on its dashboard