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TIL that Amazon once delivered a package by canoe in Kerala, India, because it was the only way to get to the customer’s location.

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pNLe TIL the population of Ireland still hasn’t recovered from the famine of 1845-1852. It was at 8 million before the famine and is at 4.5 million today.
69AX8 TIL Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money was one of the first people to cover the Ted Bundy murders.
W7r7X TIL Emilia Clarke read the words that revealed her character Daenerys Targaryen's fate 7 times in a row thinking "What, what, what, WHAT!?" because it "comes out of fucking nowhere." She also cried & went on a 5-hr walk that put blisters on her feet. Eventually, she stands by Dany's "Mad Queen" turn
N75eQ TIL that Adolf Hitler's remains were exhumed in the 1970s and incinerated. The ashes were flushed into the city's sewage system
yoYv TIL during the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, Herodotus recorded the first case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when a Greek named Epizelus became permanently blind without being hit.