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TIL bicycle brakes in the UK are reversed from the US and Europe

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78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
pYDWZ TIL that the English discovered the West Coast before the East Coast
ngbW TIL that Beck wrote and composed the music played by the fictional band Sex Bob-omb in the movie “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”
xVJmo TIL that Richard Dominick, the man responsible for much of the success of the Jerry Springer Show, Hardcore Pawn, Bait Car, etc. was also a reporter for "The Sun" grocery store tabloid and swore on David Letterman's show that all the stories reported are 100% true.
6npw TIL of “imprints”, hand-reared falconry birds sexually attracted to their keepers. To breed an imprint, the keeper “lets the male bird copulate with his head” while wearing a special hat for semen collection