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TIL that iron smelting was independently discovered in West Africa by 1000 BCE

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woEgE TIL that the US government actually poisoned alcohol during prohibition
5Rn TIL Anton-Babinski syndrome is a rare condition in which a blind person doesn’t realize that they are blind.
7rdDL TIL Sony Ericsson went from having a net income of over 1.1 billion euros in 2007 to losing about 0.8 billion euros in 2009.
WWJY TIL Finland is the first nation in the world to experiment with autonomous vehicles in urban conditions. That is because the country’s book of law doesn’t oblige the driver to be inside the vehicle.
aLr0 TIL that in the past 15 years China has tortured 3700 Falun Gong practitioners to death, and from 2000-08, killed another 64,000 for their organs.