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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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Ynn7 TIL - THC Gives Cancer Cells the Munchies Too, it causes them to undergo programmed cell death (apoptosis).
6ELv8 TIL that the biggest movie explosion was in the James Bond film ‘Spectre’
AD1Ag TIL Berliners love the "currywurst", a sausage topped with curry ketchup, so much, that there have been commemorative coins, novels, plays and movies honoring its invention. By tradition, every candidate for mayor must be photographed in front of a currywurst stand.
wLOm1 TIL That Rodney King Was Pulled Over For A Traffic Violation by the LAPD on March 3, 2011. Exactly 20 years after his beating.
b95mZ TIL Apple purchased the iPhone.org domain name in 1999, eight years before the official introduction of the iPhone.