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TIL lifeguards at Flagler Beach, FL paddled through shark-infested waters to save a deer found swimming 300 yards offshore. The deer had been stranded in the ocean for over 90 minutes before making it safely back to shore. Deer rescue by surfboard—nature's irony at its finest!

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XEbbX TIL Artists Ivan Seal and James Kirby (The Caretaker), released an album named "Everywhere At The End of Time" that uses electronically altered music to explore the advancement and totality of dementia. The album spans six stages with descriptions of each stage as it develops.
6E4yZ TIL only one pre-9/11 tenant has returned to work at the new One World Trade Center: Greg Carafello. His company was located on the 18th floor of the South Tower and his current offices are on the 85th floor of 1WTC.
YpJZv TIL there are dairy farms with cows trained to use automatic milking machines, which will milk the cows automatically whenever the cow feels like it. The machines will even remember each cow individually, and push them out if they've been there too recently.
b61x9 TIL that after Alexander the Great reinstalled Ada of Caria as queen of Caria after being dethroned, she adopted him as her son and would treat him as such, often sending him cakes and delicacies among other related things for him on his campaign, but Alexander would ultimately decline
1670W TIL the ISS has an amateur radio station aboard that is used by astronauts to make contact with schools while in orbit. Occasionally, during their downtime, they also "call out" to any amateur radio operators on Earth.