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TIL we are technically still in an ice age.
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TIL: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a late 19th century English composer and conductor was the son of a man who descended from African-American slaves who were freed by the British and evacuated from the colonies at the end of the American Revolutionary War
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TIL the last King of Bulgaria was banished as a child but later returned and became Prime Minister
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TIL that relocating sea otters to SF bay could greatly increase their population and aid in conservation efforts by keeping them safer from shark bites...but getting them there means they have to swim the "shark gauntlet" near the Golden Gate.
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TIL: In 2010 a man was sentenced to 2 years for stabbing a man who knifed him in Counter Strike. He spent 6 months tracking down his rival's real life location. The judge called him a "menace to society"
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TIL about Tilly Smith who, at age 10, helped save her family and hundreds of tourists in Thailand from the 2004 tsunami by recognizing warning signs of a tsunami that she had learned in her geography class two weeks earlier.