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TIL owls don't have eye balls, they have "eye tubes"

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XEjVE TiL about Salaria Kea, thought to be the only African-American nurse to volunteer with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
Meo08 TIL the rate of suicide among 10 to 14-year-olds has doubled over the last 30 years.
epkP6 TIL about Tayeb Souami, a New Jersey, originally from Africa, who bought a $5 orange juice from Shoprite. His wife sent him back to return it and get it for $2.50 at a different supermarket. With the refund and $2.50 savings, he bought 2 lottery tickets on a whim and won $315.3 million!
b9Ebp TIL of "Enoteca Maria" a Staten Island restaurant that only employs grandmothers to cook traditional food from their homelands
lojeN TIL the oldest continuously ongoing company in the world is a construction company in Japan specializing in Buddhist temples. Established in 578 CE, it is as old as the time when Buddhism was introduced into Japan in 538 CE. In 2007, after 1,429 years in business, it ran out of money.