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TIL that Davinder Singh of New Delhi, India broke a Guinness World Record in 2017 for typing fast with his nose, managing to type a 17-word English sentence in just over 40 seconds.

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gnK9 TIL there was hundreds of thousands of Irish slaves and it wasn’t just African slaves.
4kK8b TIL that preflight checklists were introduced after a 1935 crash of a prototype B-17 which resulted in the deaths of both pilots. Investigation found that the pilots forgot to disengage the gust locks prior to take off.
J0N4 TIL of Friendship Park, a shared park on the US-Mexico border that up until 2009, families were able to meet there at any time. Since then, additional layers of fence have made it impossible for any physical touch or even to see through it, and is only accessible from 10am to 2pm on weekends.
lQba TIL Baboons will kidnap feral dog puppies and raise them so that they will protect the baboon troop when they grow up.
8aEVa TIl of The “rural purge” of American television networks (in particular CBS) which was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows that led toward ones with supposedly more appeal to urban and suburban audiences.