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TIL that during the Haiti Earthquake, Israel set up a fully equipped, fully functioning hospital in Port-au-Prince. In its first week, it treated thousands of victims, delivered several children, all while IDF rescuers succeeded in rescuing two Haitians from under the destroyed buildings.

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x8YD TIL that all domestic hamsters are descendants of a single brother-sister pair that was bred in 1930.
Mdd7 TIL that Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen, plays almost exclusively on a home built guitar called ‘Red Special’ which be built with his father when he was a teenager
m1RWv TIL in 1872, New Orleans businessmen created Rex, the King of Carnival, for the first daytime Mardi Gras parade. To honor visiting Russian Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff, they adopted his family colors—purple (justice), green (faith), and gold (power)—as Carnival’s official colors.
m1oM TIL Stevie Wonder’s love of sound & music was inspired by a kind school teacher asking him to locate a mouse in the classroom. His classmates were terrified, but Stevie calmly found the mouse rummaging in a wastebasket. Stevie felt pride in his gift of hearing and mouse became the class mascot.
rRQK0 TIL that every year, there is a race from Adelaide to Darwin, Australia called the World Solar Challenge. All competitors run in aerodynamic, lightweight, fully solar powered vehicles.