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TIL that the little boy known as Batkid who “saved” San Francisco while battling leukemia in 2013 is now cancer free.

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rR6WM TIL that November 9th is often called the 'Day of Fate' in German history - Robert Blum's death in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication in 1918, Einstein's Nobel Prize win in 1922, the Munich Putsch in 1923, Kristallnacht in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 all occurred on the same date.
V9V8 TIL of Conrad Heyer, a soldier who crossed the Delaware with George Washington and lived long enough to be photographed
rRr0 TIL Craigslist makes its money by charging $25 for job postings in six of its largest U.S. markets, $75 for job listings in San Francisco, and by assessing a $10 fee for brokered apartment listings in New York City.
M7Xj8 TIL that, in June 1947, Kenneth Arnold became the first person to describe seeing a “Flying Saucer”, popularizing the common image of alien spaceships
QJmja Today I learned the Himba people of Namibia sees colours way differently than others in the western world. They can easily see different variations of green, which we can't, but overall they only have 5 colour categories where the western world has eleven.