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TIL The Oxford English Dictionary took a massive 71 years to complete, from 1857 until 1928

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nGGr TIL Real-time (to the day) drug use in urban areas can be monitored through sampling the sewage.
197W TIL an obscure mathematical principle called Zipf’s law has predicted the size of mega-cities all over the world. And nobody knows why.
yQGjw TIL that people used to gather around paintings at well-to-do parties identifying hard-to-spot things for fun, a game that was essentially I Spy but for the wealthy and educated.
OGLXg Today I learned that in 1962 a man bought a deserted island in the Seychelles and planted 16000 trees, reintroduced 120 giant turtles and hundreds of birds turning the island into a protected national park
PvKZ TIL that antler growth tissue if surgically removed and grafted to another part of the deer’s body, an antler will grow there.