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TIL That an American charity will pay drug addicts $300 to get sterilized

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RALw TIL that George Washington was a redhead.
X048j TIL the decorative post at the bottom of a set of stairs is called the Newel Post
Y7YvP TIL that hummingbirds can remember every flower they’ve visited, even across vast distances, and adjust their feeding routes with near-perfect timing to match nectar refills essentially making them nature’s tiny GPS-enabled robots.
epQ1L TIL that in just 10 hours of observations across seven different nights, the Vera Rubin observatory discovered 2,104 brand-new asteroids in the Solar System.
awXgy TIL about Ambroise Paré, a barber surgeon (he was both) who discovered that a mixture made of egg yolk, oil of roses and turpentine was more effective in treating war wounds than boiling oil, which was the standard treatment method at that time.