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TIL After the Amish schoolhouse shooting by Charles Roberts in 2006, members of the Amish community attended the shooter’s funeral in a show of forgiveness.

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R7ZQ7 Today I learned Brazil is bigger than continental United States.
yVbJJ TIL The first beer brewers were women. Beer is thought to have been invented by the Sumerians, who lived in what is now Iraq, around 8,000 BC and ancient tablets have been unearthed showing the original brewers were women. The Sumerians even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi.
9wLxm TIL Justin Timberlake said of *NSYNC bandmate JC Chasez, "In my opinion, (JC) had the best voice out of all of us...Out of all the boy bands, call 'em what you will, he was the one that could out-sing all of us."
d8QEK TIL lyrebird is known for its incredible skill to accurately mimic sounds of the surroundings they inhabit. The birds are endemic to Australia. They have a complex syrinx-the vocal organ in birds, which give them the capacity to mimic
4Xv1o TIL about the Finnish unit 'Poronkusema' - The distance a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Today used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away