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TIL No road or safe route exists between the jungles of North and South America in what is known as the Darién Gap

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5Yb19 TIL that more than 30% of Indonesian children smoke a cigarette before the age of 10, thanks to Big Tobacco deliberately targeting youth in developing countries
JYWZj TIL mud dauber wasps have caused 223 deaths, via plane crashes.
EPb7 TIL the towers at the startup of the ps2 represented how many games you’d played
p8lJO TIL the worlds tallest statue is the Statue of Unity in India, with a height of 182 metres (597 ft)
1By4 TIL that Tulsa OK used have a “Black Wall Street” that was once the most economically prosperous black community in America. The community’s wealth was greater than that of surrounding white neighborhoods and was destroyed by envious whites on June 1, 1921 in just 12 hours during a race riot.