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TIL Tolkien wrote letters with illustrations to his kids for Christmas, every year until his youngest was 14 years old.

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E1oXx TIL after discovering a rare tumor on an unborn fetus, a Nigerian doctor removed the baby at 26 weeks, successfully operated on the tumor & put the baby back into the mother’s womb. She carried her daughter full term & both are happy & healthy four years later.
nWWd TIL Google Doodles’ first interactive game, Pacman, was said to have cost economy $120,000,000.
R7NYj Today I learned about the "slap mark" created by the needle of your speedometer when you get into an accident. It's how investigators determine the speed you were going when it happened.
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