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TIL Truman Capote and Harper Lee were childhood next-door neighbors and best friends. Both felt alienated from their peers; Capote called the two of them “apart people”

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yV5de Today I learned that when the US State Department or US military evacuates US citizens from a crisis zone, the evacuees sign a promissory note to repay the US government for the cost of their evacuation.
LQ0Qv TIL that some women used to douche with Coca-Cola after sex as a means of preventing pregnancy and that a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Diet Coke is a more potent spermicide than regular Coke.
9YlmM TIL it's estimated that 16% of the world's gold and 22% of the world's silver is contained in Japan's electronics alone- so much that Japan is asking its citizens to donate old electronics to make the Olympic medals.
d849Z TIL that if we were given glasses that perfectly inverted our eyesight and turned everything upside-down, our brains would eventually figure it out and flip said things right-side-up again.
MeyaK TIL that If you observe a a rainbow from an airplane (a glory), it will make a full circle, and you will always see the shadow of the plane in the center of the circle.