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TIL Amazon women is not women of the Amazon (Brazil) but rather mythical tribes in Greek Mythology

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1aA17 TIL The 2020 Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo, Japan, as predicted in the manga "Akira" released in 1982.
7wLb TIL both Los Angeles and Chicago, the second and third largest cities in the US, are following New York City’s example and building elevated parks using old railways and highways
VMJeG TIL that the heist in Die Hard with a Vengance was so plausible that the FBI questioned the screenwriter leading to the Federal Reserve changing their security protocal.
p8ZmZ TIL of the "Infinite Cat Project", starting in 2003, people have been taking pictures of their cats looking at the previous cat, and so on, and so on...
X0VMP TIL that "for every increase of 100 meters (in elevation), suicide rates rise by 0.4 per 100,000 people"