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TIL about the Trans-Sahara Seaway and its abundanceof flora and mega-fauna. A huge waterway that crossed the Sahara millions of years ago.

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pYErO TIL when Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson made the song, "Say Say Say" in 1983, Paul talked to Michael about investing in music publishing. Two years later Michael purchased the the majority of the Beatles’ catalog for $47 million outbidding Paul. The Beatles catalog is worth an estimated 1 billion
Gj8j TIL Rwanda has the only government on earth in which the majority of parliamentarians are women.
rp11 TIL That popularity of hip hop is greatly attributed to the New York city blackout of 1977 where rioting and mass looting enabled young aspiring Dj’s access to equipment they couldn’t otherwise afford.
mnEo TIL there is a tree whose fruit smells and tastes like peanut butter.
jNWAR TIL Cato the Elder(a notoriously uptight grouch) expelled a man from the roman senate for embracing his wife in public and in front of their daughter. Cato went on to say that he never hugs his own wife, except during thunderstorms, and added that "thunderstorms make him a really happy man"