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TIL of the South African Taxi Wars, an ongoing turf war by South African taxi operators over passengers and lucrative routes caused by an unregulated transportation industry.

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1B1r TIL The first Native American who met the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony walked into their encampment and greeted them in English.
E166w TIL that Sir David Attenborough is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in each of black and white, colour, HD, 3D and 4K.
1aDjV TIL that Karl Blossfeldt, an early pioneer in macro photography, captured astonishing images of plants and nature at 30x magnification in the 1920s.
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