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TIL: Rolling Paper company RAW has a separate portion of their company dedicated to humanitarian efforts. This includes digging wells, rebuilding/refurbishing older wells, leading community initiatives in rainwater collection, and sustainable year-round harvesting, just to name a few

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mPgO TIL a paediatrician in Britain was once forced to flee her home after some local residents mistook her job title to mean she was a paedophile and vandalised her home.
oB777 TIL that Ramon Artagaveytia survived the sinking of the ship "America" in 1871. After 40 years of recovering from the trauma, and never being on a ship since, he decided to board a ship heading for America on 10th April 1912, the Titanic. He did not survive.
W7w1B TIL: That Christine McVie wrote the song "Songbird" in just half an hour at around midnight, but didn't have anyone around to record it. To ensure she did not forget the chord structure and melody, McVie remained awake the entire night and played the song for producer Ken Caillat the next morning.
5YlgQ TIL of the "Blood Quran" a Quran that was written in the blood of Saddam Hussein. The book is a problem for Islamic scholars because they can't agree over what should be done with it. It's a sin to write the Quran in blood but it's also a sin to destroy copies of the Quran. They're stumped.
R7ja7 TIL of 'poor doors', which are separate entrances for low income tenants, so that wealthier tenants don't need to encounter or see them.