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TIL there is an endangered indigenous group of people living in the eastern Amazon forests of Brazil called Awá-Guajá. They are known for smiling all the time.

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7rLP7 TIL lobsters have the enzyme called "telomerase" which stops DNA strands called "telomeres" from damage as new cells are made. Other organisms' telomeres erode with age, but lobsters can theoretically live forever, because their ability to create perfect copies of cells never erodes.
Wk0bo TIL Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, was buried in a cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. He is the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured this way.
J4Xm TIL that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was changed to “the Sorcerer’s Stone” because Scholastic Corporation thought that children would not want to read a book with the word “philosopher” in it.
kddm TIL the Vikings sacked Paris in 845 and did not leave until King Charles the Bald paid them 5,670 lbs of silver and gold.
jjkn TIL the ship used in Pirates of the Caribbean was sunk in Hurricane Sandy