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TIL that tribes in the Amazon are using technology like GPS and Google Earth to map their lands, monitor for illegal logging and mining, and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions including knowledge of medicinal plants

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ANApw TIL some dogs eat their own poop to destroy the evidence because they’re worried about being punished.
E1J7p TIL Mario was given his cap in his first appearance in Donkey Kong because of the limited advances in video game graphics when the game was made. A red cap was added because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.
lGVG TIL that in 2005, Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, and Pixar started a coordinated effort to push down their workers’ wages
woPDE TIL the person who invented American cheese was born in Canada
R7ALQ TIL that Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of President John Adams, underwent a mastectomy in a room of the Adams home at age 46. The operation was performed without the benefit of anesthesia.