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KOwXE TIL that there is an underground town in the Australian outback called Coober Pedy. Half of its population live below ground to escape the area's hellish temperatures.
M7oka TIL of The Novgorod Codex. It is the oldest book of Kievan Rus', unearthed on 13 July 2000 in Novgorod. It is a palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets containing four pages filled with wax, on which its former owner wrote down dozens, probably hundreds of texts.
vOoB TIL, that in 2001, two one-thousand-year-old Mississippian burial grounds were excavated in order to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter
GYEMN TIL some of the most common Spanish surnames come from the era of Germanic Visigoth rule in Spain. For example, Rodriguez means Son of Roderic, Álvarez is Son of Alvar, & Ramírez is Son of Radmir.
ANxxa TIL the first ever text message in history is "Merry Christmas"