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TIL that almost three quarters of all of Kenya’s athletics come from one tribe, the Kalenjins

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mxvZR TIL in Germany in 1938, while searching for a water source for a town, workers found an ancient spring feed line to a Roman aqueduct which had supplied Cologne 60 miles away. The feed was simply connected into the modern water network. To avoid damage to the spring no archaeological work was done.
VDyB TIL that the Italian government constructed a dam in 1959 despite multiple warnings of the instability of the region. In 1963, a landslide into the reservoir behind the dam triggered a tsunami over 800 ft high that breached the dam and killed nearly 2000 people, leaving a 200 ft deep impact crater.
jpAN TIL In 2009, Russian strippers were invited to a professional gaming tournament in an attempt to make players lose their concentration. They didn’t look once.
5VOkn TIL Human dads show a decrease in testosterone immediately after the birth of their babe
Z8ZMG TIL that "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-lot was a call to see beauty in diversity. Sir Mix-a-lot used the song to blame the media for skewing the notion of beauty and hoped his music would empower women of all shapes and sizes.