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TIL: Violence has steadily declined over the course of human history, and we are currently in the midst of the most peaceful era yet.

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6EZ0l TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
voJ8 TIL African continent is being split into two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an 8 meter wide and 60km long stretch of the earth opened up over a period of just ten days.
VNb8 TIL that the Bible has a story about a woman lusting after men “whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses”
LkaP0 TIL J.R.R. Tolkien, famed author of The Lord of the Rings and other works, was nominated in 2017 for beautification to be canonized as a Catholic saint.
x6j1D TIL that gorillas eat the peel of bananas