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TIL the term "Cletus Safari" - (the kind of news article in which the writer makes an expedition from some enclave of sophistication—New York City, let's say—to go talk to the exotic folk out in the hinterlands to get their take on an issue of interest.)

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YmOA TIL that Italy and Japan are still at war
7rJRx TIL that Czech doctors successfully delivered a baby girl 117 days after her mother had suffered a severe stroke and became brain dead. After delivery, they disconnected the mother’s life support.
9wKoB TIL that Yuma High School’s mascot is the Criminal because the first school building was the old Yuma Territorial Prison.
W7dJ9 TIL the first neural network AI computer was built in the 40s by scientists born in the 19th century
oRW17 TIL that the Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.58 million years, known as the Quaternary Glaciation.