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TIL That a public car park in Derby is considered one of the ten most secure places on Earth.

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0wmQA TIL Jean Keene, "Eagle Lady". An activist who fed bald eagles on her farm in Homer, Alaska. She fed an estimated 227kg of fish every day and environmentalists are concerned that she changed the eagles migratory pattern. Homer now forbids bird feeding as they have become a general public menace.
gGMA TIL of Jesse Rae, a Scottish funk musician who dresses as a Scottish Centurion, and whose career ended largely due to his mistrust of the English.
xGPB TIL that after the invention of the Cherokee Alphabet by Sequoya in 1825, the literacy rate of the Cherokee people soon surpassed that of their European and American neighbors.
8nea TIL The appendix does have a purpose. It stores samples of good bacteria so they can repopulate your immune system in case they are wiped out completely by diseases such as dysentery or cholera.
worrP TIL about Shackleton’s job posting – Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey