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TIL the US government accidentally discovered the first Gamma Ray Bursts using their spy satellites during the Cold War

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e0ZPE TIL that up until 1927, it was still legal to hunt the Kalahari bush people for sport in Southern Africa. But you needed a permit.
9wkoM TIL about Ubasute, a mythical practice from Japan, carrying your elderly parent to a mountain, leaving them to die. The film “Ballad of Narayama” explores this
4XmOX TIL Canada recycles just 9 per cent of its plastics with the rest dumped in landfill and incinerators or tossed away as litter, a new report shows.
W7JEX TIL Persia was renamed Iran after the word “Aryan” which means noble. It’s the same word used by the nazis.
RYZ9 TIL the phrase ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ originated from the tendency of dead animals to be washed away following periods of heavy rain in the filthy streets of 17th century England.