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TIL there is a theory that question mark orignated from the shape of cat's tail when it is inquisitve.

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A5Xa TIL 35 years before the Holocaust, Germany committed one of the first genocides of the 20th century in modern-day Namibia. German forces sealed off the Namib desert leaving up to 100,000 native Africans to die of starvation and exposure.
16bP8 TIL the indigenous pre-Columbian Muisca society of the Bogota valley had an egalitarian society that were so prosperous to the point they would create large, intricate gold objects and throw it into a lake as an offering to the gods.
0dd6p TIL the phrase “abracadabra” originates from the book Liber Medicinalis by Quintus Sammonicus
pARp TIL the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has donated over $10,000,000 to charity since they started touring.
mER TiL The discus throw is the only track and field event where a women has a higher record then a man.