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TIL Technetium was the first artificially created element of periodic table filling the gap of Eka manganese noticed by Mendeelev.

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b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.
ne4yY TIL Belgium and the Netherlands allow euthanasia for severe treatment-resistant mental illnesses.
0wodM TIL about Joybubbles, a blind man who at age 5 figured he could make free long distance phone calls by using his perfect pitch to whistle. He later went on to create a non profit where he called terminally ill children and talked to them paying for the call himself.
4WKg TIL A 66-year-old hiker, who became lost on the Appalachian Trail, kept a journal documenting her 26-day ordeal before succumbing to lack of food and exposure. In one entry, she pleaded “When you find my body, please call my husband and daughter.”
M7YEA TIL that there is an annual World Dog Surfing Championships