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TIL that the city of Americana in Brazil was founded by former Confederates who fled the US after the Civil War

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DVZj TIL Bill and Melinda Gates funded a website created by Rice University that provides free open-source textbooks for college students
Zpd94 TIL about the Ka'u desert, a desert in the big island of Hawaii, that was created by the acid rains of the eruptions of the mount Kilauea. Is the only insular desert of the USA
R7pda TIL A new, low-cost wound dressing leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury. In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process.
N7J1E TIL of the 'Phantom of Heilbronn' a female serial killer sought by Austrian police for 16 years. It later transpired they were using contaminated swabs to collect DNA from crime scenes.
LQxy0 TIL that Ian Fleming (who created James Bond) also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.