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TIL there is a group of people who place a white rose at the 9/11 memorial on the person’s name who would be having a birthday that day.

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R75K4 TIL the average height of adult women in South Korea went up 20.2 cm (8 inches) from 1896 to 1996.
87W4 TIL that all of Australia’s snakes, spiders, sharks, crocodiles, and poisonous sea creatures combined only kill 5 people per year. Horseback riding accidents kill 20 Australians per year.
MQmb TIL that students studying crows at the University of Washington wore wigs and masks because the crows would remember their faces and harass them for the remainder of their college career.
Wpw8 TIL A banana is a unit of radioactive exposure and that a truckload of bananas is able to set off a false alarm at U.S. ports sensing for smuggled radioactive material
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft