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TIL the Melbourne Children’s Hospital has a permanent Meerkat enclosure to help cheer up the patients

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ADVOl TIL rice provides about 20% of all human calories worldwide.
16DrD TIL that there's a programming language called APL. It stands for 'a programming language.'
gMGJD TIL Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He was frustrated with the fact that he had to go and ask his coworkers what data was on their computer so he can add it to his computer which led to him creating an application that became the world wide Web.
N7O58 TIL that the will of Who bassist John Entwistle, who died in 2002 after taking cocaine with a stripper in a Las Vegas hotel, divided his estate between his mother, son and girlfriend. A month after receiving an inheritance of ca £1million, Lisa Pritchett-Johnson died of a suspected drug overdose.
vPvyD TIL Very little of Franz Kafka's works were published during his lifetime and he burned 90% of his work. Works like The Trial and The Castle were saved when the executioner of Kafka's will ignored Kafka's request to have his remaining works destroyed.