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TIL that you check out people instead of books At the Human Library. Instead of checking out a book, you “borrow” a person who has stories to tell gathered from a unique life experience for half an hour.

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ne6XG TIL about Astroturfing, the practice of masking something to make it seem like it's a grass roots movement inside a country or area when it's actually being controlled by outside sources
GYEwg TIL about Nancy Dupree, an American-born woman who became known as the 'grandmother of Afghanistan.' Moving there in 1962 as a diplomat's wife, she spent the rest of her life in and around the country, collecting and saving documents and eventually founding a new library of Afghan history
XELmR TIL the Appalachian Mountains were once part of a mountain range called the Central Pangean Mountains, which were created when the supercontinent Pangea was formed about 335 million years ago. Other mountains that were once part of that range are now in Africa and Scotland.
YpbQv TIL Devo 2.0, a Disney tween cover band of Devo, was the idea of Devo's Gerald Casale - when Disney proposed repurposing their material for the child audience, Casale replied that they can do it by hiring a group of children, like in The Monkees, instead of Devo playing these songs for kids.
x6aA1 TIL most audio recordings contain a background "mains hum" from electric power grid oscillations that can be matched with grid readings to date the clip to the second it was recorded.