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pN8O TIL of Hero Rats: African giant pouched rats can be trained to sniff out both mines and tuberculosis. They are too light to set off mines and can perform a day’s worth of human TB scanning in seven minutes.
R9Al TIL Steven Spielberg never was paid for Schindler’s List saying any salary would be blood money. Instead he donated everything to the Shoah Foundation.
Xkr TIL: There is a disorder, Williams Syndrome, where sufferers will befriend anyone.
9Ywr6 TIL and I read about Ginkgo Avenue, Meiji Jingu Gaien Park
VM5MQ TIL Villagers were often surprised to see Hong Kong governor Murray MacLehose in remote areas, asking how things were and clearing up rubbish on their beaches. The Chinese government invited him to visit Beijing in 1979, making his the first official visit by a governor since 1949