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In this episode of Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Thomas Taha Rassam Culhane introduces the Zabaleen and explains how they’ve built a way of life around Cairo’s garbage.

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GA1yQ TIL a 19 year old East German stole a 10 ton Soviet armored personnel carrier and drove full-speed into the Berlin Wall, got caught in barbered wire and shot twice before West German bar patrons rescued him.
oRWgR TIL Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells
0JX5 TIL that every year in ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish ANY person from the city-state for 10 years.
nWrlb TIL that Betty Crocker isn't a real person, but a mascot for General Mills
kN75 TIL that Alexithymia, the inability to identify and describe your own emotions, affects roughly 10% of the general population.