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TIL in 1991, the little plastic ball in cans of Guinness won the Queens Award for Technological Advancement, beating the Internet and Email.

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WboA TIL India’s government once released about 25,000 flesh-eating turtles to clean up corpses polluting the Ganges river.
kJ78E TIL a 2018 study at Cambridge University found no genetic basis for why women tend to score higher than men on empathy tests. The researchers attributed it to 'Socialisation', where due to the way power has traditionally been distributed, it's mostly been up to women to understand men.
v8Kr TIL some Ultramarathon Runners Remove their Toenails Permanently
wo0Bo TIL about Life After Hate, an organization that helps people break free from violent extremism
W79L TIL Hundreds of millions of birds are killed each year colliding with manmade structures