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kOGp1 TIL exactly how the mama Wren keeps that nest in our kitchen window so clean
701p TIL that starting in 2007, the city of New York began paying for a one-way plane ticket for any homeless person as long as they had a relative elsewhere agree to take them in.
xJ4k TIL the TV series Captain Planet was the first children’s show to deal with HIV-AIDS. The episode involved a villain brainwashed a community, making them think HIV could pass on just by casual contact, making the entire town hate a young man infected by HIV, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris.
xl8b TIL that the word “pupil” meaning the part of the eye, comes from the latin word for doll (pupa / pupilla) since you can see a miniature version of yourself when looking into someones eyes.
Eg5yd TIL The railway bridge depicted in the film “The Bridge on the River Kwai” actually crossed the Mae Klong river. It was renamed the Kwai Noi by the Thai government after the success of the film in the 1960s.