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TIL that a city in Turkmenistan was once the biggest city in the world, until the entire population was massacred by the Mongols.

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erg5 TIL that 95% of consumers buy organic foods because they thought it meant it was pesticide free, even though farmers use pesticides on organic crops.
x6rJ7 TIL that for the United States' 150th birthday in 1926, Poland sent 111 volumes of signatures & greetings to President Coolidge. The signatures were from government officials, representatives of religious social business academic & military institutions, and approximately 5.5 million schoolchildren.
Xrnk TIL that during Johnny Carson’s final episode of the Tonight Show, Comedy Central went dark, showing only a message: “watching Johnny Carson’s last show and so should you.”
8akjZ TIL that Richard Dawkins coined the term 'meme' in his 1976 book 'The Selfish Gene' to describe the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
5Vlpr TIL of Hank the Tank, a black bear accused of breaking into over two dozen Lake Tahoe homes and threatened with euthanasia before later being exonerated by DNA evidence.