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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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DOWg TIL the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame removed an exhibit containing the ashes of Alan Freed, the DJ who coined the term “rock ‘n’ roll” and staged the first-ever rock concert, and replaced it with a public display of Beyonce’s leotards.
R7wpQ TIL, the reason why US has quarters instead of some coin acting as fifths of the US Dollar is because the US currency was based off the Spanish Dollar which had 8 reals per peso, "pieces of eight".
Gg64 TIL baseball player Tim Raines would often use cocaine between innings in the dugout, and would only slide head first to avoid breaking the cocaine vials that he carried in his back pocket.
nW6kB TIL Robert Shaw, who played Quint in Jaws, died at age 51 when he was driving with his wife and son in Ireland. He suddenly got ill, stopped the car, got out and collapsed on the roadside.
XEbOE TIL that my favorite time of day actually has a name and begins when the geometric center of the sun is 6° below the horizon and lasts until the sunrise.