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TIL the concept of private property was unknown to ancient Hawaiians. Instead they had "ahupua'a", a belief system that connected spirituality into the natural landscape. It emphasized the interrelationship of elements and beings and honored them in the activities of daily and seasonal life.

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LeOP TIL of Thomas Silverstein, an inmate who has been locked up in his ‘Silverstein Suite’ which is essentially his very own mini-prison, with no human contact for the last 32 years.
rN4p0 TIL: that the former boxer ramon sosa was marked for murder by his own ex wife so he decided to fake his own death to bring her to justice.
NpGe TIL the first person to climb the exterior of the Sear’s Tower did so using suction cups and while wearing a homemade Spiderman suit
P6ag TIL of The Dire Wolf Project, a project to breed German Shepherds to resemble dire wolves. It started in 1988 and focuses first on health and temperament. They are enormous, scary, shaggy and, by all accounts, terribly sweet.
YZ67 TIL The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy. It was cheaper for the publishers to break it up into three books than printing one large book.