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TIL the Earth's water is older than the sun

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NYEP TIL that African buffaloes are reported to gore and kill hundreds of people every year, they are also notorious for ambushing and attacking pursuing hunters, usually after being shot at.
6Wgw TIL: the word “thug” is derived from the Cult of Thuggee in India, who were hired assassins who killed 2,000,000 people and were only stopped when the British arrived with modern crime detection methods in the 1830’s
Lk6gQ TIL Some multilingual dyslexics are only dyslexic in one of their languages, and not the other(s).
Oo5PL TIL that Tuvalu gets 10% of its GDP from leasing its .tv Top Level Domain. This allowed it to able to enter the UN because it could finally afford the $100,000 entrance fee.
rNwgw TIL “golden hour” also exists in the morning, not only in the evening