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TIL Peru uses an ingenious system of "fog catchers" to make water accessible to residents of capital Lima's low-income neighborhoods. The fog catchers resemble large rectangular sailboat sails, which are composed of nylon nets that trap microdroplets of water.

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xV9Nk TIL that an 18-year-old girl called Rae Heim ran across America almost entirely barefoot. She only wore shoes on some hard terrain. She ran 3,437.5 miles in 8 months and raised more than $10,000 for charity. She started running barefoot at 16 after breaking a big toe, and kept it up after it healed.
1aaEV Microchips and dip.
4XNdo TIL Tom Hanks is a distant cousin to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s mother. They are third cousins, 4 times removed.
j6kbp TIL a cockroach named "Nadezhda" became the first terrestrial animal to give birth in space aboard the Russian Foton-M bio-satellite
lA1B TIL that the British Secret Service (James Bond’s employer) really can issue a “license to kill”. It’s called a Class Seven authorization, and must be approved by the MI6 agent’s superiors all the way up to the Foreign Minister.