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TIL a German man celebrated his birthday for 46 hours by travelling through different time-zones

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oRrKA TIL about the Tree of 40 Fruit, where multiple 'donor' branches are grafted together so that a single tree produces dozens of fruits such as apricots, cherries and plums
D155V TIL that pre-electricity theatre spotlights produced light by directing a flame at calcium oxide (quicklime). These kinds of lights were called limelights and this is the origin of the phrase “in the limelight” to mean “at the centre of attention”.
loDar TIL that the Azerbaijani village of Qırmızı Qəsəbə is the world's only all-Jewish town outside Israel and the USA, and is considered to be the world's last surviving shtetl. Alongside Azerbaijani and Russian, residents also speak Judeo-Tat, the traditional language of the Mountain Jews
DQe5e TIL Coffee lowers risk of heart problems, early death, stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and prostate cancer.
YpEWB TIL about Self-plagiarism, when you reuse portion of your own work without acknowledging that you're doing so or citing the original work.