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TIL the creator of Mad Max is also the creator of Happy Feet.

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oRDk7 TIL that the town of Mafeking, wholly inside and incorporated as part of South Africa since 1910, was the officially recognized capital of Bechuanaland (Botswana) until 1965.
oNBE TIL In 1674, Manhattan was traded from the Dutch to the English for Run Island, an island in Indonesia which is now nearly uninhabited.
Ypeed TIL that land mines have led to a positive development in the Falkland Islands by providing sanctuary for penguins who are not heavy enough to detonate them so they can breed safely without human intrusion.
1ad5P TIL presenteeism—the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of illness or other medical conditions, not fully functioning appears to be a much costlier problem than its productivity-reducing counterpart, absenteeism.
mxyyO TIL that roads are built to accommodate whatever uses them and back in Ancient Rome this was a chariot or two horses asses, which was than used to gauge railway, which was than used to gauge the solid rocket boosters on the space shuttle.