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TIL in 1986, 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" fell down a narrow well and was trapped upside-down for 58 hours

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PYkvE TIL the US Virgin Islands is the only place in the United States that drives on the left, though many cars are left-hand drive like the mainland
ZpMlv TIL that Maat is the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, harmony and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the time of creation.
p8w88 TIL the voices schizophrenics hear are actually their own subvocal speech. This is why it's so common for schizophrenics to believe their minds are being read.
MeN1m TIL only two male solo artists have had top 40 hits in the each of the last four decades: Michael Jackson and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
gyN8 TIL that the Wisconsin state legislature has explicitly defined “toxic substance” in their “Employees’ Right to Know Law” to exclude Lutefisk