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TIL that in the year 2006, an Australian tried to sell New Zealand on eBay

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VBJjG TIL about Kukur Tihar, a Nepali Hindu festival dedicated to celebrating and praising dogs. They are given treats and garlands and it considered sinful to be anything less than kind to them.
0mrM TIL that Erik The Red deliberately gave Greenland a more appealing name than “Iceland” in order to lure potential settlers. It worked.
MAW8 TIL the Apollo missions used condom-like pouches for urine collection. It came in three sizes, which the astronauts called “extra large”, “immense” and “unbelievable”.
MQ4K TIL All humans are born “premature” because their large brains wouldn’t have fit through the birth canal
b9yKa TIL Neanderthals are responsible for the earliest known hominid-made structures, which are about 176,500 years old, consisting of 400 pieces of broken stalagmites arranged into 2 rings that are several metres across, deep inside a cave in France.