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TIL that lemurs are among the largest pollinators (in terms of their size, not their scale of pollination)

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V9pk TIL water towers aren’t just for water reserves, but actually creates the pressure we use.
WkKRL TIL that in 1996, the mayors of Athens and Sparta signed a symbolic peace treaty, officially ending hostilities and formally bringing the Peloponnesian War to a close 2,400 years later.
mxpxY TIL that as recently as 1992, Australia was recognised as Terra Nullius meaning nobody's land because Aboriginal Australians were considered fauna instead of human beings.
Jxg8 TIL that for the first time part of a dinosaur skeleton has been discovered in amber with the finding of a tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur
w15P TIL in 1991, the little plastic ball in cans of Guinness won the Queens Award for Technological Advancement, beating the Internet and Email.