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TIL Bono from U2 was named after a hearing aid shop in Dublin

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VWo4 TIL fresh snow can reflect 80% of UV light and can cause “snow blindness” which is a painful sunburn on your eyeball
Me180 TIL that Aitzan Hasan, a Pakistani schoolboy died while preventing a suicide bomber from entering his school on 6 January 2014, single-handedly saving 2000 students.
YQWP TIL Costa Rica is home to 10% of the world’s known butterfly species.
9LmB TIL that until 1993, the BT Tower was an official state secret despite being a 177-metre tall structure in the middle of central London that was open to the public
wLJoW TIL that an ocean quahog clam named Ming lived to 507 years old