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TIL In 1996, Canada became the first country in the world to privatize its air navigation services.

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9YAVm TIL the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria wasn’t a great loss of historical texts. The majority of the library’s scrolls had been copied for libraries in Persia, Byzantium, and Iraq; Its believed the study of these texts helped form universities through Europe in the Early Middle Ages
ne6xW TIL billions of years before humans built their first nuclear power plants, 17 natural nuclear reactors were producing energy in Gabon
b6vO0 TIL Every year on the anniversary of his death, the National Trust leave the bedroom light on in John Lennon’s childhood home, all night.
Z8g74 TIL Due to their reclusive nature, scientists are unsure how long a pangolin lives in the wild.
l7WVB TIL: I don’t have to set myself on fire to keep other people warm.