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TIL Paris has many public drinking fountains that produce sparkling water

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wo64Y TIL about the Man of the Hole, the last member of an indigenous tribe in Brazil. He gained his name for digging a deep hole in each of his former residences (for reasons that remain unknown), and remained isolated for over 50 years in the Amazon rainforest until his death in 2022.
lNPK TIL: The Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square, London, is donated by Norway every year as a thank you to the U.K for their assistance during World War II
Kl19 TIL That the full size pears inside some bottles of liquor are actually grown in there by hanging the bottles from the tree
PMEw TIL that the portuguese man o war, isn’t one Jellyfish, it’s four animals living symbiotically.
gMpGX TIL A 2015 study found no evidence that Kalash people of Pakistan are descent from soldiers of of Alexander the Great. The study, however, found that they shared a significant portion of genetic drift with MA-1, a 24,000-year-old Paleolithic Siberian hunter-gatherer fossil and the Yamnaya culture.