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TIL: The population can hold a General Strike where all laborers stop working to show a complete lack of confidence in the government.

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4XpOJ TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them
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