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TIL Earth's oldest land ecosystem was spotted in South African rock cores

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x6Veg TIL author H.G. Wells married his cousin in 1891. The couple later separated when H.G. Wells fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins. This entire period was the most productive in H.G. Wells' whole writing career producing The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, among others.
J1b1m TIL that absinthe consumption was so prevalent in France, and debilitating, that France's insane asylums more than doubled (57%) their populations in ten years chiefly due to "The Destroyer, "Green Demon," "Green Fiend," "Green Peril, "Green Damnation," "Green Terror."
PYPJn TIL every Dec 25th, a town in Peru celebrates "Takanakuy" where men, women and children settle grudges from the past year by calling each other out and having a fist fight. Then everybody goes drinking to numb the pain and move on to a new year.
BAyr TIL In 2006, a German rabbit farmer sent 12 giant rabbits (the size of dogs) to North Korea for the purpose of a breeding program, but he refused to send more after realizing that officials might have eaten the rabbits instead of breeding them.
6EL9w TIL that a pregnant woman in Britain can pee anywhere she wants, even in a officer’s helmet.