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TIL there was land bridge between India and Sri Lanka you could pass on foot 600 years ago

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nWpxG TIL In 1376, the Pope excommunicated the entire Florentine government, banned the city from all religious activity, sanctioned florentine companies abroad by forbiding christians from dealing with them and made it legal for all christians, anywhere, to capture or enslave florentine citizens
ZwlD TIL that both the Aztecs and the Buddhist Jataka have an almost identical tale about the rabbit on the moon.
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