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TIL that some children in Colombia need to use a a quarter of a mile high zip line above the Rio Negra because it’s the only way to get to school

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oRADR TIL that the 4th Earl of Sandwich, for whom the sandwich was named, served as Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty during the American Revolution. His poor leadership contributed to the American victory, and it was said that "Seldom has any man held so many offices and accomplished so little."
Lk6lr TIL the Epic of Gilgamesh depicts stories that are virtually identical to Adam & Eve and Noah’s Flood, but predates the Bible by at least a thousand years, indicating that the Christian stories are not original but derived from ancient Mesopotamian legend
GYQaN TIL: There was a case of British conjoined twins. If not separated, they’d both die in months. If separation was successful, the healthier twin would survive but the surgery would kill the other. The parents refused consent, but a court overruled them, the surgery killed one twin to save the other.
1P8V TIL that Chernobyl actually translates to “Wormwood” in Ukrainian. In the Bible, Wormwood is the name of an angel or star that makes the waters bitter and kills many people.
OAVR TIL that when it came time to remove the support beams from newly erected cathedral vaults in the Middle Ages, they had about a 50% failure rate.