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TIL In the 1950s, the USSR started breeding foxes in an attempt to see how wolves may have been domesticated. As a result there are now domesticated foxes called Silver Foxes which are still being bred.

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oRKXE TIL The Saint-Bélec slab (2150–1600 BCE) is a stone artefact from Brittany thought to be the earliest map of any known territory. The slab was discovered in 1900 and then forgotten for more than a century in the cellar at the Château de Kernuz, where it was rediscovered in 2014.
EgkwX TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire. The loan for the Slavery Abolition Act was so large that it was not paid off until 2015.
aw0P9 TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
oReWA TIL French bread is not from France
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