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TIL a man spent two years, planting thousands of flowers, to help bring his blind wife out of depression

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aNRN TIL: There is a name for a belief system where you simply don’t care if there is a god or not
Y7xWG TIL that beards are absolutely forbidden at the London ‘Handlebar Club’, an association of aficionados of the handlebar moustache. The club's sole requirement for membership is "a hirsute appendage of the upper lip and with graspable extremities"
JlE1 TIL that typically a Boeing 747 carries 416 passengers, but when a group of Ethiopian refugees were evacuated in 1991 they managed to fit 1,122 people on board. They originally planned to board 760 people, but got to 1,122 because “ the passengers were so light”.
QJ0GE TIL a major tobacco company was sued for allegedly using company vans in the 1960s to make trips to housing projects where free Newport cigarettes were given to children. A jury ruled against the tobacco company, which was ordered to pay over $35 million in damages.
0dYLp TIL: A cloud weighs about a million tonnes. A typical cumulus cloud has a volume of around one cubic kilometer, and even though its density is slightly lower than the surrounding air, the sheer volume results in a mass that can exceed a million tonnes.