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TIL Warsaw has two large business districts publicly known as Mordor and Isengard. Although not official, names are commonly used by locals and one of them recently got streets named after J.R R. Tolkien and Gandalf.

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XEdMP TIL Modern scientific methods came about as a result of an argument whether adding the milk first to the tea is better
vP6Zx TIL that People in Vanuatu use certain plants, called "calendar plants," to indicate changes in the seasons and cues for certain activities such as farming, fishing, and hunting. For example, when Melanthera biflora flowers, local people know that sea turtles are very fat and ready to be hunted.
ploZ TIL in 1887, a mathematician received a prize for his work on the stability of the solar system. A year later, after finding an error in his own work, he published a paper contradicting it, which led to the development of chaos theory.
wLyRM TIL Meerkats are a type of mongoose that live in burrows in Africa. Remarkably social, they live in groups that can number up to 30 individuals (called mobs) that cooperate in keeping watch over their pups. Interestingly, when females reach sexual maturity, they are usually banished from the family.
x6Krb TIL you can go to the island of Sicily via a "boat-train", the last remaining passenger train ferry in Europe. It is a 25-minute ride across the Straits of Messina, the service started in 1899.