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TIL An Indian King in 1920 bought 7 Rolls-Royce cars to collect garbage after being denied a test drive in England.

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V8X0 TIL that today’s children could have shorter average life spans than their parents, because so many suffer from obesity.
9wY5r TIL Helen Keller, a famous American woman known for overcoming deafness and blindness to lead a successful life, was a Socialist political activist, and lead a commission in the IWW for blind and disabled people.
N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
vPpNK TIL that drinking too much coffee (more than six cups per day) can reduce brain size and cause dementia
Wk90A TIL: In 1572 according to Dutch legend, while Prince William the Silent was sleeping in his tent, Spanish assassins lurked outside but was saved by his pug, Pompey, who barked wildly and jumped on his face, waking him up. The pug was then considered the official dog of the House of Orange.