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TIL that when Peru’s national football team qualified for this year’s World Cup, their fans’ celebrations were so loud that they produced enough of a seismic wave to trigger earthquake alerts in Lima.

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M69m TIL in a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847.
4XKL6 TIL Sleep deprivation has opposite effects in healthy people and those with depression. If you’re healthy and you don’t sleep, you’ll feel in a bad mood. But if you’re depressed, it can prompt an immediate improvement in mood, and in cognitive abilities. This is the basis of Wake Therapy
4X966 TIL Ice-T’s album "Rhyme Pays" was the first rap album to carry a Parental Advisory label, three years before the RIAA started putting the Parental Advisory sticker on albums.
16G9X TIL Billy Joel's 1993 album River of Dreams' cover is a painting by his then-wife Christie Brinkley. Rolling Stone later gave Brinkley the Top Picks award for "The Best Album Cover of the Year."
On8X TIL that apes have been shown using language to ask questions (even complicated questions!) of primate researchers for over 40 years, and the other post to the contrary is total BS.