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TIL 2/3 of all illiterate adults are female.
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TIL Mapmakers deliberately put slight mistakes in their maps (fake streets, towns) so they can tell when someone copies them. They are called map traps.
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TIL there is a "forest" covering over 100 acres consisting of over 40,000 trunks of a single tree. The trunks are all connected to the same root system and collectively weigh 6000 metric tons. The root system is an estimated 80,000 years old, though each trunk only lives about 130 years.
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TIL that Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Costner were all offered and passed on the role of Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption—Hanks instead chose Forrest Gump, and Costner chose Waterworld, while Cruise declined to work for the first time director Frank Darabont.
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TIL the parliament of Iceland, Althing, is the oldest surviving parliament in the world. It was founded in 930 CE and still held sessions even after Iceland's union with Norway in the 1200s.
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TIL, in 1986, a sysadmin looking into a $0.75 accounting error uncovered a KGB hacker that was stealing nuclear secrets