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TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains

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lAwa TIL that in 1912, 3,020 trees were sent from Yokohama to Washington, D.C., as a gift from the people of Japan to the people of the United States.
pO TIL an Olympian was born with a collapsed lung, diagnosed with asthma, stands little over 5ft, weights 115ibs and is now a double Olympic gold medalist in track cycling
m1kwp TIL that District of Columbia (Washington, DC) is a member of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
KPRQ TIL a school was locked down and a student was arrested when the secretary rang a student who’s voicemail greeting was the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” theme song and she misheard “shooting people out side of school”
M7ZgA TIL Thousands of years of bird poo accumulated on the island of Nauru as phosphate was essential for Australia and New Zealand's agricultural development in the 20th century.