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TIL that for years, scientists didn't know what caused mysterious cave networks in South America. In 2010, they learned that the caves were actually tunnels dug by ancient giant sloths.

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e0WQk TIL In 2013, the French government overturned a 200-year-old ban on women wearing trousers. According to the law, women needed permission from local police if they wanted to "dress like a man" and wear trousers.
OGERX TIL In 1999 a heat wave almost forced two nuclear power stations next to Lake Erie to shut down because the temperature of the water in the lake almost reached the 85 degree limit.
N7d4P TIL two nurses, hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor in the same Florida hospital found out that they were actually long-lost sisters from Korea who had been separated for almost 40 years
ypGp TIL the tails of comets point away from the sun, not behind its travel direction
eBlL TIL that Gandhi’s great-grandson lives in Topeka, KS, is a retired heart surgeon, and was recently elected to the state house of representatives (as a Republican)