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TIL 7,500 B.C. Nabta Playa in Africa is the World's First Astronomical Site, which Tracked the Summer Solstice & Arrival of Monsoon Season

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xV1ew TIL that the car that Paul Walker died in, the Porsche Carrera GT, was designed to be notoriously difficult to drive to appeal to professional drivers who wanted a challenge
E1Ond TIL There are twice as many trees in the UK today as there were a hundred years ago.
p8EyZ TIL The Human eyeball has a resonant frequency of 18Hz and may explain some ghost sightings
B4aW TIL that Joseph Heller, when told by an interviewer that he had “never produced anything else as good as Catch-22,” responded: “Who has?”
e0EQb TIL that the British town of Berwick Upon Tweed has changed between being part of Scotland and England 14 times. At one point its status was so ambiguous that declarations of war had to specify that nations were at war with "Scotland, England, and Berwick Upon Tweed."