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TIL that due to being in the same room a psychiatrist's mental health patients became recommended friends to eachother on Facebook.

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Z8K5B TIL that the first European scientists to examine a Platypus body thought that it was fake, believing it was made of several other animal pieced together
R7nKQ TIL In 1989 a naked man climbed a flagpole at a McDonald's in Anchorage, Alaska. He stretched his arms out and nosedived onto the pavement. There were no drugs in his system, and he has never been identified.
R7glQ TIL 99.9% of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant due to sanctions put in place to protect white pine trees.
Wkdjd TIL that until 2006, U2 paid no tax in Ireland due to artists exemption. When the exemption was capped at $315,000, the band moved its accounts to the Netherlands, rather than face a multi-million dollar tax bill for album sales and royalties.
pdWA TIL in 1971, 80 percent of third-graders walked to school alone. By 1990, that measure had dropped to 9 percent, and now it’s even lower.