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TIL that dust from the Sahara Desert helps fertilize the Amazon Rainforest, despite being an ocean away.

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yQNbp TIL that the numbers we write today are all upper case. Lower case numbers exist and some include ascenders and descenders
rr9x TIL Australian police were able to indict a suspected ringleader of a child porn site by matching a freckle on his finger with one in images of child abuse.
R7Wm9 TIL the word quarantine comes from a seventeenth-century Venetian variant of the Italian quaranta giorni, meaning forty days, the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic.
bMkN TIL at the age of 5 years and 11 months, Ayan Qureshi took and passed Microsoft’s IT Technician Exam, making him the youngest certified computer specialist in the world.
xVbN0 TIL In 2015 Joakim Brodén, vocalist of Sabaton, being drunk he bet that he would walk to their next concert, forgetting that it was gonna be at Tronheim, +550km from his position. He ended up walking more than 700km.