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TIL Mandela wasn’t removed from the US Terror List until 2008.

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KYBAB TIL that most of modern Finland was underwater at the end of the last ice age. The weight of the ice had pushed the crust down, and the land is still rebounding. It would still have been an archipelago at the time of the founding of Jericho.
JYgpm TIL the world has more than 50,000 edible plants, yet just three commodity crops—rice, maize, and wheat—provide 60 percent of the plant-derived calories we eat
P1M0V TIL that a guy sailed across the Atlantic in a yacht just 162cm (5 foot 4) long. Apparently, the sport is called microsailing.
ZN64 TIL the Romans divided the day into 24 hours. Unlike us, there were always 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. A daylight hour in summer was considerably longer than one in winter.
wog87 TIL: It is common for people (particularly Hindus) to be given names on the basis of horoscopes, usually provided by an astrologer. The astrologer determines the sound a name should begin with and the family will choose a name based on that sound.