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TIL BBC hoaxed audience with a fake spaghetti tree video on April Fool's Day in 1957

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ojZW TIL of the Angel of Nanjing; a selfless man who has patrolled the Yangtze River Bridge since 2003, saving people who wish to commit suicide and counselling them back to health, he has saved over 300 lives to this day.
DQOPD Today I learned that Stilton cheese cannot legally be made in Stilton, the village which gave the cheese its name
mxE5Y TIL a 14 year old boy in China was killed anally after the gas cylinder in the base of his office chair (the part that allowed the user to adjust the seat up and down) exploded and sent chunks of the metal seat up his rectum, causing him to bleed to death.
Lkbjp TIL December 12th is Ding-A-Ling Day – a day to call friends and family that you haven’t spoken to in a while.
yQA1V TIL about the "Duffy Blood Group" which serves as a receptor for some malaria species and that it is less present in Blacks resulting in increased resistance to malaria