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TIL that my middle name means olive tree.

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Wpj9 TIL in 2013, Costa Rica announced it would close all its zoos, effective March 2014, and free animals either to the wild or to safe “retirement” shelters. Officials say this is a response to “a change of environmental conscience among Costa Ricans”
eJXb TIL In 1986 approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the contiguous United States.
D1M1e TIL that German folk singer Sibylle Baier recorded her album Colour Green during 1970-73 but wasn't released until 2006, over 30 years later, when her son found the tapes.
69BWJ TIL that "Nut graph" is a term in journalism for the paragraph that explains the story in a nutshell
GY64Q TIL of the Mount Washington Devil’s Shingles. Workers who worked on the Mount Washington Cog Railway sometimes raced sleds down the 6,300 ft. mountain. One time a worker went from the summit to the base in 2 1/2 minutes, at points traveling as fast as 60-100 mph.