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TIL that the Horn of Africa is NOT at the bottom of Africa, around South Africa. It is around Ethiopia to the NE, below the Red Sea.

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4XAwX TIL that Dodo birds didn't die of extinction on Mauritius because the Portuguese ate them. The Dutch arrived later and brought pigs to the island which ate the Dodo eggs out of their nests. Dodo birds kept their nests on the ground because there weren't any predators before.
eV7n TIL at the shooting championships in Kuwait last year, Kazakhstan won a gold medal and Borat’s Kazakhstan National Anthem was played at the ceremony
W7OPB TIL that black people were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on July 4th, so butter pecan was created as an alternative.
69M77 TIL Bakhtiyar Khilji, the Muslim general who invaded and destroyed the ancient university and library of Nalanda (india) in 1193 it took 3 consecutive month's for 9 million books to burn
1adKO TIL that Stephen Colbert's father was the Dean of the Medical School at Yale University