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TIL the Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British colonist Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa

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X6V6 TIL that birds while flying the shape of a V, the birds’ wing flaps synch perfectly with one another, minimizing their energy output, according to aerodynamic theory
PYBBL TIL of Father Daniel Berrigan, a Catholic Priest who ended up on the FBI's Most Wanted List after burning draft cards in protest of the Vietnam War
4XYg5 TIL The world is running out of usable sand
Zpd94 TIL about the Ka'u desert, a desert in the big island of Hawaii, that was created by the acid rains of the eruptions of the mount Kilauea. Is the only insular desert of the USA
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