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TIL how canyons are formed

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PYRGg TIL that there is a branch of science known as Paleoacoustics which studies what fossils might have sounded like
e0Z46 TIL that, despite being on opposite ends of the country, Disneyland and Disneyworld are both located in Orange County
NXbDE TIL that in the Kenyan island of Pate, there is a village in which the entire population is descended from medieval Chinese sailors. The story is that when Chinese merchants came to the island to trade with the locals, they ended up running aground. They then decided to settle and marry local women
lrJB TIL Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, was quoted saying “Once you’ve been labeled a genius, you have to continue it or your name becomes mud. I am a victim of the recording industry. I didn’t think I was a genius. I thought I had talent. But I didn’t think I was a genius.”
4XpOJ TIL 700,000 year old stone tools were found in the Philippines despite the fact that known humans didn't arrive until 600,000 years later. Researches aren't sure how humans got there or what early hominid could have even made them