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TIL Indigenous Australians were the first people to bake bread. Around 15,000 years earlier than Egyptians

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nWlJr TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina
M7x6m TIL that there exists a Peruvian political movement called Ethnocacerism, an ultranationalist indigenous movement that seeks to restore the borders of the Incan Empire. It was founded by the father of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala.
ANgkn TIL Darwin suffered a curious denial about his mother’s death, once writing in a condolence letter “never in my life having lost one near relation” and during a Scrabble-like game, when another player added ‘M’ to ‘OTHER’, he stared long at the board then cried: ‘There's no such word as M-OTHER!’.
5GdR TIL there are still 10 counties in Alabama that will not issue anyone a marriage license in protest of same-sex marriage
epnLD TIL about windcatchers - towers to catch winds for natural ventilation of buildings without electricity. Windcatchers were an important architectural element in Persia and a solution for cooling. The warm air was cooled by the soil and water in the channel and released into the interior.