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TIL that there are more people of Lebanese descent in Brazil than there are in Lebanon itself.

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XEjlP TIL about Osama bin Laden, an elephant responsible for 27 deaths from 2004-2006
bgj0 TIL its illegal for drug companies to advertise to consumers almost everywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the US and New Zealand.
pb04 TIL Physicists like using 2000 year old ancient Roman lead in their experiments and this is pissing off archaeologists
e05yk TIL In 1971, after LANSA flight 508 was struck by lightening above Peru, 17 year old Juliane Koepcke fell from the sky for two miles but survived. Despite extensive wounds, she walked for 11 days in the rainforest before finding a group of fishermen who helped transport her to a hospital.
dDRrj TIL Up Until the 1950s, There Was a Species of Seal Living in the Caribbean From Florida to Mexico