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TIL there are no snakes in New Zealand

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YBev TIL a castaway Japanese seaman wrote of his ordeal in a message in a bottle, which he threw into the ocean in 1784. It washed up in 1935 in the village where he was born.
0dkoN TIL about the Reversing Falls, on the Saint John River in Canada that reverses direction twice a day at high tide.
M7MV TIL garlic and onions help promote hair growth
A4Mn TIL Cylindrical aluminum cans have optimal geometric characteristics from spheres and cuboids for material and packing efficiency respectively.
PbPO TIL researchers have invented a helmet that gives humans simulated 360° of Vision, allowing a person to avoid a ball thrown from behind and catch an object tossed outside the normal human field of view.