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TIL that instead of the Tooth Fairy, kids in Italy, France, Spain Hispanic America, and parts of Belgium and South Africa leave their teeth out for the Tooth Mouse.

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EeKp TIL Louisiana firefighter Chad Duffaut rescued 6 ducklings from a storm drain with the help of his cellphone’s duck call ringtone. This was the fire station’s second duck rescue in a week - previously, firefighters rescued a duck that got stuck in a chimney.
oR1DA TIL people with blue eyes indicate a lack of melanin. Eye color is directly related to the amount of melanin in the front layers of the iris. People with brown eyes have a large amount of melanin in the iris. It's believed blue eyes are can be traced to one human being. Darker eyes help reflect sun.
nWwRb TIL that before departing from his Crusade in the Levant, Edward, Duke of Gascony (the future Edward I) fought off and killed an assassin who was wielding a poisoned dagger.
9Y8Jr TIL of 1960s Japanese TV series The Samurai. After few episodes were shown on Australian TV in 1964, viewer demand led to the entire series being shown: it became the most popular show on TCN9 to that time and when the series star arrived in Melbourne he was met by thousands of fans, many in costume
yQ0bp TIL In 1974, the city of Spokane installed Garbage-Eating Goat Statue. The metal goat sculpture has a vacuum inside that allows the goat to “eat” small pieces of garbage as part of a creative solution to eliminating litter.