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TIL that the song ‘November Rain’ took Axl Rose 8 years to write, and was at one stage, 18 minutes long

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p1wZ TIL that most languages have a bias against left-handed people. Left is derived from ‘lyft’, meaning weak. In Dutch, 'Link’ means cunning. In German, 'link’ means questionable. In Mandarin, it’s zuô, meaning improper, and in Turkish the word for left is sol, which can mean both 'die’ and 'ill’.
0D6L TIL Israel is the only country in the world to have a net gain of trees in the last 100 years
pNYO TIL that Lee Jong-rak created a “baby box”. He built it beside his house to allow parents to deposit their mentally handicapped or unwanted babies, to stop them being abandoned on the side of the road.
GOrN TIL that 10,000 years ago Lions were the second most widespread land mammal, after humans. They existed across Africa, Eurasia and America.
lZm7 TIL the Des Moines Register printed pictures of the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing on its front page the day Timothy McVeigh was executed and didn’t name him.