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TIL that Lebanon was known as the land of Phoenicians and their national bird is the mythical Phoenix.

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X0GAk TIL actor Shane West served as touring vocalist for the punk rock band Germs from 2005 to 2009.
WP74 TIL The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, the top search result for reporting mental health abuses, is run by Scientology
VbgQ TIL that rubber, despite its many uses now, was called “rubber” because it rubs out pencil marks.
0LLN TIL Cuba and Venezuela were the first countries to offer assistance after Hurricane Katrina.
kG54 TIL that Digg, a social news aggregator, was extremely popular and almost sold to Google for $200M. Instead, they began to censor their own community and make arbitrary management decisions that drove the community away to newer, less-oppressive sites like Reddit