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TIL a large network of small rock dams across a watershed can increase wayer quality and repair habitats (USGS Video)

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OoLE6 TIL The Allies worked with the Serbians and Yugoslav partisans to systematically execute Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing Axis nations. Termed “Bleiburg Massacre” and later changed to “repatriation”
m1Vgy TIL The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was renamed to The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square in 2018 because the leaders of the Mormon church don’t like the name Mormon anymore.
v1lj4 TIL that in 2007, a group of researchers tried treating Arachnophobia without the use of any spiders, but by showing arachnophobes images with spider-like features. After the treatment, some test subjects were comfortable petting a tarantula in a terrarium.
xGPB TIL that after the invention of the Cherokee Alphabet by Sequoya in 1825, the literacy rate of the Cherokee people soon surpassed that of their European and American neighbors.
ok48 TIL that every single tweet you’ve sent is now part of the Library of Congress. Twitter agreed to provide them with every tweet ever sent & continues to supply tweets to the Library’s archive on an ongoing basis.