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TIL All the gifts mentioned in The 12 Days of Christmas are birds.

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LkkEP TIL That JFK had a younger sister, Rosemary, who received a lobotomy which made her unable to walk or speak. This was his and his brother's main motivation for all they did for individuals with special needs.
OOAL TIL concrete can be made translucent by incorporating optical fibers in merely 4% of its volume. The material feels and behaves just like concrete, but allows light to pass through.
xpxb TIL of a banker in a small Florida town who encouraged people to buy shares of Coke during the Depression and now the town has “secret Coke millionaires”
X0EAP TIL the first person to discover the effects of LSD took it by accident, and took it a second time to confirm the cause of the hallucinations
WX5o TIL Mattel made and sold Wonder Woman’s “invisible jet” as a collectible. The package was an empty plastic shell with nothing inside, and was originally intended as an April Fool’s joke.