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TIL there is a pathway in England called the Ridgeway that has been in use for 5,000 years.

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Pegw TIL that not only did Coco Chanel steal her famous perfume Chanel No. 5 from the Jewish family that financed it. But she also go them to pay her living expenses afterwards with Nazi help.
GYEeg TIL: The Jurupa Oak tree in California is estimated at 13000+ years old, reproduces through cloning, and only expands after being burned by wildfires to sprout new branches.
wDaW TIL one of the first instances of a stored computer program was in 1801, when Joseph Marie Jacquard demonstrated a loom that wove fabrics based on hole-punched cards that were fed into the machine.
OGXVg TIL that Brad Pitt has a younger brother named Doug who is a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Tanzania
1a7rO TIL that the story of the Dutch "Tulip Mania" is wildly exaggerated, and was propaganda created by religious Calvinists to promote the notion that "wealth is ungodly"