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TIL Japan has a special group of hobbyists who call themselves “Man-Holers”. They collect manhole cover designs from past decades.

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6ELxJ TIL that pilots in Australia and Canada are allowed to take a “controlled rest in position”, which is a nap in the cockpit, when it is safe to do so
ADyr7 TIL world's last Stone Age society exists on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, and they are identified for protecting their island upon all visitors. Because they have been living in isolation for 60,000 years, there is genetically a direct path between them and their pre-Neolithic ancestor
XELE8 TIL Musician Ed Sheeran cured his childhood stammer by rapping to Eminem. He went on to win an award from the American Stuttering Institute.
bkK7 TIL in 1974, The Godfather premiered on NBC over two nights (November 16th and November 18th) from 9pm-11pm. On both nights, at 11pm, New York City’s Municipal Water Authorities had some overflow problems from all the toilets flushing around the same time.
l78a5 TIL Quaternary Twins are when two babies are both cousins and genetically siblings. This happens when two identical sisters have children with two identical brothers.