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TIL before his death, author Robert Louis Stevenson gifted his friends daughter his own birthday. The daughter had been born on Christmas, and complained she felt like she had no real birthday

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kEAB TIL that GCHQ complained “…a surprising number of people use webcam conversations to show intimate parts of their body to the other person”, which means staff processing images harvested from millions of webcams around the world keep being faced with genitals.
Ll7d TIL depression causes more years of disability than cancer, HIV/AIDS, and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases combined
71NX TIL the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson can make 400,000 gallons of its own freshwater daily by desalinating surrounding saltwater
aw5p9 TIL Owls make almost no noise from flying, even when tested in a room with multiple microphones
5RmB TIL that a former teacher who was convicted for sexually abusing her 12 year old student when she was 34 in the 1990s is now married to him and hosts a weekly ‘Hot for Teacher’ night at her local bar.