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TIL that early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.

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69QxX TIL About Operation Milagro where Cuba and Venezuela are providing vision-restoring surgeries for free in 35 countries
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dJ5j TIL (1940) Niels Bohr dissolved two 23-karat gold Nobel prize medals in three parts hydrochloric acid and one part nitric acid and hid it from the invading Nazis. In 1952 the medals were restruck and returned to their owners.
ypXJ TIL: Jewish law prohibits the separation of stuck-together newspaper pages on the Sabbath as it constitutes “applying the finishing touch” (one of the 39 activities prohibited on this day).
PYPOZ TIL that the United Nations was gifted a statue of an elephant by Kenya, Namibia and Nepal, but the UN hid it because the statue has an erect penis.