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TIL Ancient mummified forests in Canada's Quttinirpaaq National Park were discovered in 2010. Located at the northern tip of Canada in the arctic on an island only a little smaller than Great Britain, this park is accessible by ship from $13,300 USD

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awgJ0 TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots' translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.
nebBG TIL the brain is wired to view death as something that only happens to other people. It's a defense mechanism to avoid existential fear.
61Ll TIL in order to game Texas’ “Top 10% Rule”, students have been known to transfer to less competitive high schools for easier chances of automatic admission
krW4 TIL there’s a school in Russia for mastering “The Art of oral sex”
69GjY TIL that in 1689, inspired by the Glorious Revolution in England, a group of Puritans led a coup against the Catholic-led government in Maryland and outlawed Catholicism for nearly a century.