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TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.

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woYEY TIL time seems to only flow in one direction at the macroscopic level but that is not the case at the microscopic level. This phenomenon is known as the "arrow of time paradox" and it's one of the many unsolved problems in physics.
wL9y8 TIL Colonel Sanders wounded a business rival in a deadly shootout in the 1920's. The future fast-food giant shot a Standard Oil gas station owner for painting over one of his billboards. All charges were dropped.
Ego4x TIL some women born with a double uterus (Uterus didelphys) actually have two periods per month, and require two samples to be taken during smear tests, one from each cervix
JwNQ TIL that Kurt Cobain passed up playing a minor role, (i.e. the Eric Stoltz’s character), in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction movie. Also he thanked Quentin on the back of the In Utero album in the “Special Thanks” section.
gr5wL TIL that the Oʻahu ʻakialoa bird - a species of Hawaiian honey creeper- went extinct because of a strain of bird flu that was passed by mosquitoes.