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TIL there’s Christian communities in India who allegedly exists since the first century A.D, prior to most parts of Europe.

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7QA7 TIL most bamboo species only flower once every several decades, the entire population flowering at once; and, when one variety flowers, the entire variety flowers at the same time the world over, regardless of location, climate, or any other known factors, for reasons scientists have yet to discern.
gRdy TIL of the Gombe Chimpanzee War, a violent conflict between two groups of chimpanzees, the Kasakela and the Kahama, in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, that lasted from 1974 to 1978.
bgrN TIL that Isaac Asimov died of AIDS.
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8eEjb TIL - about an 11-year-old boy from the Netherlands who won a Wolfson economics prize for his solution, with a pizza analogy, to the Greek debt crisis