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TIL a Finnish nursing home ran a small project where they gave subsidised accommodation to students with the agreement that they would spend time with the elderly

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10BO TIL most predators have eyes facing forward while most prey have eyes on the sides of their head
D1RXJ TIL there is a German island in the North Sea (Föhr) whose residents love the Manhattan cocktail - a relic of mass emigration to America in the late 1800s/early 1900s of island residents.
4mpR TIL in his final days Lyndon B. Johnson would listen to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel repeatedly while agonizing over his legacy; worrying that he would only be remembered for the Vietnam War and not as the architect of equal rights and Medicare.
abZJ TIL Ancient peoples in the Middle East and India tamed Cheetahs and trained them to ride horses.
yVV0e TIL Dr Seuss' wife, Helen, encouraged him to give up his idea of teaching English and to concentrate on his "fabulous collection" of fanciful animal drawings. Her strategy worked and Dr Seuss published his first children's book in 1937