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TIL that there is a rare species of Deer that have long fangs instead of antlers.

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695OZ TIL Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism, played piano in a Baptist church as a young boy.
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7AMP TIL that a 6-Year-Old HIV-Positive Boy Was Forced to Live Alone in Rural South West, China.
yVrp8 TIL about fire classes (in the USA) which each have specific ways to extinguish them—A (ordinary combustibles), B (flammable liquids/gases), C(electrical fires), D (metals like elemental sodium in water), and K (lipids/fats like kitchen fires).
W7vN8 TIL that the true color of the sky is violet. Earth's atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths, like blue and violet. However, our eyes are more sensitive to blue and less to violet, so we see the sky as blue.