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TIL that the Book of Mormon tells of things like cattle, donkeys, steel, silk, elephants, and wheat in Pre-Columbian America. None of them existed in America before the 1500’s.

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j0kM TIL about Motörhead, a 1992 beat-em-up for the Amiga. You played as Lemmy as he rescued the other members of the band from rappers, rednecks and ravers. The game also included bottles of Jack Daniels as health and mini-games where you pick up groupies and trash hotel rooms.
e6AJ TIL that Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was April Fooled early in his career when his office was taken apart and rebuilt on a platform in the middle of a pond complete with a working phone.
GypG TIL there is a carnivorous plant big enough to drown and digest rats.
5VeXP TIL that fentanyl is commonly used as a pain reliever during childbirth.
9wp9G TIL of the Sama-Bajau, an ethnic group of Maritime Southeast Asia, that live a seaborne lifestyle, many of whom still live in houseboats that roam the Coral Triangle (the waters around the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea)