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TIL 5,200 tons of space dust falls on Earth every year

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GY1yj TIL After learning that Getty Images had been selling unauthorized licenses of her work, Carol Highsmith donated her collection of thousands of photos from all fifty states, royalty-free, to the Library of Congress
v7J7 TIL there was a tradition in Norway, Denmark and the Faroe Islands where a girl would knit a “willy warmer” (also known as cock sock) to their boyfriends to see how seriously he took their relationship. If the gift was rejected, it was seen as evidence that he was not ready for marriage.
Y7MKA TIL Unlike most religions, the Druze do not allow outsiders to convert to their faith.
op0o TIL the $614 billion bailout has been completely repaid and the US government has made over $50 billion profit from dividends and interest to date.
J1O5m TIL about The Colour of Animals, an 1890 book which made the first comprehensive argument about why animals are coloured the way they are.