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TIL Receipts in Taiwan are lottery tickets. It encourages locals to ask for receipts and boost tax income.

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E1Nx7 TIL that Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) can be caused by many factors, the most alarming being childhood trauma.
WRbA TIL that Bajau people live in the middle of the sea, rarely go on land, have no nationality, no fixed abode, no money and they go spearfishing without scuba gear. Not even oxygen tanks.
9Ywmr TIL of the huia bird. It went extinct in 1907 and its call was never recorded, but it exists today because an elderly Maori man imitated in 1949 from memories of his childhood.
RaE8 TIL that Nicholas Cage received an Oscar nomination for his role in Adaptation in 2002 after director Spike Jonze told him to “ignore all of his acting instincts”
BePr TIL a 7-year-old girl recognized herself on a milk carton as a missing kid. She might never have been rescued, except her abductor bought the carton and cut out the image, giving it to her to save. A friend saw it and she was reunited with her father.