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TIL Nigeria is the third largest English speaking country, behind India and United States

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xVdao TIL that the family tree of Confucius has been tracked for more than 2500 years, and with 80 generations it is the longest known line of succession in history
VwK0 TIL Ben Franklin wrote an essay titled “Fart Proudly,” an entire essay about flatulence.
4O85 TIL - Universities get ‘Kickbacks’ from publishers for requiring their students to purchase textbooks
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4X9nb TIL There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only to burn them to the ground every 60-80 years to rebuild the same settlement as before