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TIL: The sentinelese, an uncontacted hunter gatherer tribe living in a remote Indian island in the Bay of Bengal

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l79VN TIL: A man memorized the French dictionary to win the French Scrabble Championship, he does not speak French
VBOQQ TIL the first mass-produced bicycle for women was called the Ladies’ Psycho
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OOjY TIL George Lucas’ oldest daughter is a winning-record MMA fighter
yQLkw TIL that in July 2014, six sealed glass vials of smallpox dated 1954 were discovered by chance in a storage room in an FDA laboratory at the NIH in Maryland. Upon transfer to the CDC in Atlanta, two of the vials had virus which proved to be viable in culture. They were destroyed 7 months later.