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TIL that the majority of ancient Brits came from a 6,000-year-old Spanish tribe

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LQ1nm TIL that Albania had no standard gauge railways until 1947, built over 660km (410mi) in forty years, then closed the entire network in 2021.
neQaY TIL that starting about 7,000 years ago in Egypt, seasonal rains started moving south until rain only now falls regularly on the Ethiopian highlands. This shift forced nomadic cattle herders to settle along the Nile, leading to the first permanent Egyptian civilizations.
wY41 TIL Most American adults will never develop past stages 4-6 on Loevinger’s 9-stage developmental scale. Below the seventh stage, most can’t even grasp the existence stages of development beyond their own. Less than 1% of the population will ever reach the 9th, or “Integrated” stage.
x65Do TIL First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’
JZKj TIL: In 2008, a 4chan user made a prank about how Steve Jobs “died of a heart attack”, after the prank went around social media, Apple’s stock dropped around $5,000,000,000 because of the joke.