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TIL in 2015, a man tried to claim he invented the chicken sandwich but U.S Courts ruled that the sandwich couldn't be copyrighted.

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4X0Mg TIL that Africa's arbitrary borders, which make the continent look like a patchwork and are responsible for many ethnic conflicts up to this day, were "made" at the Berlin Conference (1885) by European leaders.
GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!
wLvx1 TIL that some spider species mimic ants and kill them one by one when they least expect it. They have a fake ant head that splits open to reveal deadly weapons.
15RW TIL that some scholars believe early Christianity was completely based on the ingestion of psychedelic mushrooms and that any mention of Jesus or the Eucharist was actually this mushroom
wYdM TIL That as late as the early 1900’s jaguars natural habitat extended into Texas and almost to Louisiana.