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TIL there is a rainforest called „Hyrcanian forests“ in northern Iran.

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yQ85a TIL in 1140, a German King captured a castle and ordered all the women of the castle to leave with whatever they could carry on their backs. Thinking quickly, the women carried their men on their backs. The King kept his word and let the men live.
E1rY7 TIL An group of archaeologists have found trousers—worn between 3K and 3.3K yrs ago—in a tomb in W China. The trousers were invented for horse riding by Chinese pastoralists and are the oldest known examples of this kind of apparel. The trousers are formed from three separately woven pieces.
p81PG TIL about Dorothy Louis Gage, L Frank Baum's niece, who died at the age of 5 months. Baum's wife was so distraught over Dorothy's death that she started requiring medical treatment. In order to cheer his wife up, Baum decided to name the protagonist of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in his niece's honor
69vm8 TIL Meredith Burgess stars in both the Rocky films and Santa Claus the Movie. I've watched SCtM every Christmas eve morning for about 35 years and the Rocky films are my favourite movies, only realised this morning.
oy8r TIL the 300 different NPCs in GTA San Andreas are voiced with as much as 60,000 possible lines, making it almost impossible for any one player to have “heard” the full game audio.