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TIL that some German nursing homes have fake bus stops to collect residents with Dementia who wander away.

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j61R TIL: Someone wrote his Name 1,000 meters high, and two miles wide into the sand and it’s visible from space
XEXKj TIL many puzzle manufacturers reuse the dies which cut their puzzles into pieces, so pieces from one can fit into another. And one man has turned this into an art.
Vnop TIL in Abraham Lincoln’s 1846 run for Congress, friend’s gave him $200 to campaign. After winning he handed back $199.25 saying, “my only outlay was 75 cents which some farm hands insisted I should treat to.”
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