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TIL: The sahara desert was full of life several thousand years ago and there's even ancient rock art in the sahara that shows animals that only live in wetlands. Some historians believe the cultural memory of the green sahara drying up still exists today as the story of the garden of eden.

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4wOR TIL the body of an almost perfectly preserved 700-year-old medieval knight was discovered on the grounds of St Bees Priory and autopsied in 1981.
N78nJ TIL of the ancient Greek letter "digamma" (or "wau") that made a "w" sound. It used to begin, for example, the word "oinos" ("woinos"), which is Greek for "wine."
0BrA TIL: Nixon sent champagne and a note saying “Justice ultimately prevails” to Mark Felt after he was pardoned by Reagan. 30 years later, it was revealed Mark Felt was “Deep Throat” who helped bring the Watergate cover-up to light.
QJ4Ze TIL "Gym" is "jõusaal" in Estonian language and it's direct translation would be "Hall of Strength".
ee86 TIL in 1997 a Great White Shark was killed by an Orca (Killer Whale) causing other Great Whites in the area to flee