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TIL that maple syrup is essentially anti-freeze for trees.
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Brmme
TIL Before dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers for use as prosthetics. In the 1780s an ivory denture with human teeth could cost over £100.
J1Qnj
TIL The Canary Islands are named from the Latin word for dog and not the bird!
rNEM0
TIL About the Bantu Expansion where in 10 waves of migration between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE Bantu peoples from the area around modern day Cameroon settled nearly all of Sub-Saharan Africa eliminating, displacing or absorbing most of the indigenous peoples of the region.
awOWN
TIL that Pythagoras cannot have been the first to discover the Pythagorean theorem because it was known and used by the Babylonians over a millennium before he was born.
XKoP
TIL That while the two cities border each other, El Paso, TX is one of the safest large cities in the US and Juarez, Mexico is one of the most dangerous cities in the world.