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TIL Most modern handcuffs in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Latin America can be opened with the same standard universal handcuff key.

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M7EV7 TIL One of the early Spanish explorers of the American Southwest met a man who they called "the Turk", who told them stories of rich lands to the east. He would later reveal that he made it up to draw them away from Pueblo civilizations so they would die of starvation in the plains.
8aRwV TIL Over 14,000 high-resolution photos from Apollo missions 7 to 17 have been uploaded to Flickr by a group of enthusiasts, scanned from the original astronauts' camera film magazines.
wLoMP TIL there is something called the North Country Trail, which starts in upstate New York and ends in North Dakota and is 4,600 miles long
4kgXN TIL The UK's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 has a special provision for Peter Pan
e0LGk TIL Horseshoe Crab's are harvested for their blood, which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications.