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TIL In some African countries, albinos’ body parts are believed to bring wealth and good luck. As a result, attackers chop off their limbs and pluck out organs, and sell them to witchdoctors.

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woL4Y TIL The official rules of Ping Pong allows the ball to touch your paddle hand, which includes all fingers and hand area below the wrist. But players may not touch the ball with a non-paddle hand for any reason.
4XZk6 TIL that modern scientific research is seen by scientists and historians as "Big Science", with scientific progress since WWII increasingly relying on large-scale projects with big budgets, big staff, big machines, and big laboratories, usually funded by national governments or groups of governments
OVa7 TIL that according to the British Film Institute, Fawlty Towers is the best British Television program of all time.
mx1ER TIL in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time -in Nagasaki- where he survived another atomic blast
K8g9 TIL the word “gay” to mean homosexual came from the term “gaycat,” a slang term among “hobos” meaning a young man who accompanies an older, more experienced “hobo”