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TIL that toilet paper has been around since the 6th century and was mass produced by the 14th.

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5VX1R TIL there's an international treaty preventing the use of Environmental Modification Techniques or "Weather Warfare".
loeLa TIL that after a woman murdered her husband and attempted suicide, their pet parrot who was the sole witness began repeating what's thought to have been their last conversation, including the words: "Don't shoot!"
9XAM TIL that upon reaching the Pacific Ocean in 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery held a vote to decide where to set up their camp. This vote included a black man (Clark’s slave, York) and a Native American woman (Sacagawea), with everyone’s vote having equal weight.
Vav8 TIL That Canada is actually considered to be the country with the most Freedom.
VK4k TIL that a 15-year-old did the same thing that Rosa Parks did 9 months earlier, but wasn’t iconized in part because she was too dark-skinned