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TIL The Vatican City is home to the world’s only ATM that gives instructions in Latin.

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nAQr TIL Arunachalam Murugananthan invented cheap and durable menstruation pads purely because it saddened him that his wife, and women across India, could not afford them. In the process, his wife left him, he nearly lost all of his money and was ostracized by his own community.
rkZ1 TIL that most of the time, we find things truthful if told in rhyme. This could be due to “the Keats heuristic,” where things are preferred when they seem artistic.
1pxr TIL that a man was mauled by a bear, partially buried by friends then woke up and hiked like 200 miles back to camp and survived.
VO4 TIL there is a Canadian street gang called the United Nations that encourages ethnic diversity
pYwNp TIL in response to criticism of Mazda naming their SUV after the Navajo, the company donated a Mazda Navajo model to the tribe