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TIL that India is named after the Indus River, almost 90% of which runs through Pakistan, their long time rival.

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yQXnX TIL Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics showed no differences on tasks of memory distortion, autobiographical memory distortion, or working memory capacity. But skeptics consistently outperformed believers on several tasks tapping analytical or logical thinking as well as vocabulary.
P1xZe TIL about AATIP. which was a secretive program run by the US Department of Defense from 2007 to 2012 that investigated reports of UFO sightings and other unexplained aerial phenomena. The program was officially declassified in 2017.
6EdNZ TIL the word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
GeKQ TIL that the United Kingdom and Portugal hold the longest standing alliance in the world, it started in 1386
8a60V TIL the US minted a quarter For 2020 with bats on it. First time bats have appeared on a US coin.