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TIL that the only heir to the mighty Mughal Empire lives in abject powerty in a slum in Kolkhata, running a tea stall.

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4kgPX TIL cormorant and pelican guano harvested from islands off the coast of Peru and Chile was used in the Inca highlands to boost agricultural output. The Inca created what the first known animal conservation scheme to safeguard the birds' breeding grounds with violations punishable by death
awQv9 TIL: People with the sickle cell mutation have crescent (sickle) shaped blood cells that provide resistance against malaria.
KANE TIL A man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.
vPwbR TIL that a study shows wearing a mask decreased the quality of chess players’ decisions—a measure of their cognitive performance. However, the disruptive effect of masks is relatively short-lived, gradually weakening so that there is no measurable disadvantage after roughly 4 hours of play.
Wk0w9 TIL that in a real life case of Dexter's Laboratory, chemistry obsessed teenager David Hahn created a nuclear reactor by pretending to be an scientist/highschool teacher in order to obtain radioactive material. Sadly David passed away in 2016 due to alcohol poisoning.