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TIL that Greenland is actually part of North America, is ruled by Denmark, and is icier than Iceland.

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RZa TIL the biggest box-office star of 1930 was blacklisted for refusing to deny his homosexuality.
Z8v04 TIL Grazing animals such as horses and bison are known to engineer the landscape around them, for example suppressing the growth of trees by trampling or eating saplings. When this process is harnessed to restore an ecosystem to a previous state it is called rewilding.
kOok7 TIL that a black musician named Daryl Davis convinced 200 Klansmen to leave the KKK.
6EZZm TIL there is a petroglyph scene near Arches National Park around 2000 years old depicting a woman giving birth
oyDL TIL Thylacine (aka Tasmanian Tigers), which were hunted to extinction because people believed to them to prey on farmers’ sheep and poultry, had jaws so weak that they couldn’t kill anything larger than a possum.