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TIL that parts of Africa no longer want your clothing donations. The vast amount of these imports have devastated local clothing industries and led the region to rely far too heavily on the West.

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65nZ TIL two innocent people were imprisoned for 22 years due to false allegations of Satanic ritual sexual abuse of children. The social workers involved in the case believed that children’s denials of sexual abuse was proof that they had been abused.
ebYE TIL Elon Musk called Apple the ‘Tesla graveyard’, alleging that many of the tech giant’s senior staff are former Tesla employees who couldn’t make it at his company. Stating: “We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard.’ If you don’t make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple. I’m not kidding.”
GYD8Q TIL Velociraptors had feathers and were only around 20 inches tall - roughly the size of a turkey but with a longer body.
9YAxX TIL that there is monument in Ireland called Newgrange, built in 3200 before Christ, constructed in a way that the sun lights shine in the inside only one day in a year (the winter solstice day)!
E1nEW TIL upon hearing about the death of Teddy Roosevelt, Vice President Thomas R. Marshal declared “death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there’d have been a fight”