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TIL How lighthouses project light to extreme distances.

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5DaP TIL Jim Rice, of the Boston Red Sox, rushed into the stands in 1982 to help a young boy who had been struck in the head by a line drive. Rice carried the boy onto the field, through the Red Sox dugout and into the clubhouse, where the young boy could be treated by the team’s medical staff.
LkX99 TIL of eight deaths related to ingesting liquid laundry packets (i.e. Tide Pods) in the U.S. between 2012 and early 2017 that have been reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, only two of the cases were actually children, with six of them being adults with dementia.
7NML TIL a man in China purchased a first-class plane ticket — and used it to eat a year’s worth of free meals at the VIP lounge at Xi’an International Airport.
QNWaE TIL although Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” has nothing to do with Christmas or winter, it has gradually been added to the Christmas Music repertoire because Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle decided to include it on her Christmas album in 2010
yVr48 TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German".