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TIL: Sweden has a hotel for sourdough starters that cares for travelers’ bread dough while they go traveling.

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7bYM TIL Teddy Roosevelt said: “I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
KVaQ TIL an Owl’s eyes are so well developed, they are not eye balls but elongated tubes. It is for this reason they cannot roll or move their eyes and can only look straight ahead (which is why they have adapted an extraordinary range of movement in their neck).
OKZ7 TIL that on 9/11 four people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center managed to escape from a floor above the plane’s impact.
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