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TIL that Nikola Tesla fell in love with a pidgeon.

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XEbOE TIL that my favorite time of day actually has a name and begins when the geometric center of the sun is 6° below the horizon and lasts until the sunrise.
E1kGP TIL Paper fortune tellers have 5 other names
lowe7 TIL in the 5th century BC, diabetes was first identified by a surgeon named Sushruta who pointed out that the urine of diabetics was sweet enough to attract ants and sticky to the touch. He noted that diabetes affected rich castes and was related to the excessive consumption of rice and sweets
Rdm8 TIL that Art Spiegelman, the creator of Maus (a Pulitzer Prize winning anthropomorphic comic about Nazi concentration camps) also created the Garbage Pail Kids.
pnyG TIL that while filming Zodiac, Robert Downey Jr would discreetly pee into jars and leave them in corners of the set as protest for not getting enough break time.