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TIL 12 counties in Africa are building a 9 mile wide tree wall all the way across the continent to prevent the Sahara from advancing

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7oG7 TIL that in the early days of reddit, founders Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman created fake accounts to submit content. Admins had the ability to create new users and posts simultaneously to give the site the appearance of having an established community, until reddit could stand on its own.
8aB7P TIL The kid from the Anti Smoking ad I remember seeing on TV after school was Rob McElhenney (Mac from Always Sunny).
YpDpP TIL as of April 2018, Swaziland has been renamed as Eswatini, one of the reasons behind the King's decision to rename the country was that "...abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland."
vOoB TIL, that in 2001, two one-thousand-year-old Mississippian burial grounds were excavated in order to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter
R71gw TIL an almost 80 year old man fought the British in 1775, survived being stabbed multiple times and went on to live well into his 90s.