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TIL about "Delay-Interval Delivery" where twins are delivered up to weeks apart to help increase survival chances of both babies.

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awdKL TIL of Franz Schmidt, a German 16th century executioner who kept a detailed diary of his 361 executions
DQwWg TIL that a retired print technician from Yorkshire David Smith in 2023 discovered the Einstein tile, a single tile that is capable of tiling the plane aperiodically thereby solving a long standing open problem in mathematics.
6Ekg7 TIL It's tradition in Japan to have KFC on Christmas due to very good marketing in the 70s to 90s.
XEMbj TIL One of the most popular national daily newspapers in Japan circulated an entirely recyclable newspaper. It had plant seeds embedded in the news print. After reading, you could plant the newspaper directly into soil and it would grow.
YpveB TIL of the 1904 disaster of the burning and sinking of sidewheel passenger steamboat PS General Slocum. At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died.