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TIL The Pirahã people of Brazil live without the concepts of numbers or time. They can’t count and use an “analog estimation strategy” which works well for trying to solve problems involving a few items but breaks down beyond that.

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YRxA TIL if officials awarded Lance Armstrong’s 2005 Tour De France title to the next fastest finisher who has never been linked to doping, they’d have to give it to the 23rd place finisher
v1bo4 TIL In 1985 the Russians made a movie called The Detached Mission which was a response to Rambo: First Blood Part II.
94v6 TIL the British Government forcibly deported a whole population out of an island to make way for a US military base
wooKo TIL that the first piece of legislation passed by the 1st U.S. Congress was the Tariff of 1789, which levied a 50¢ per ton duty on goods imported by foreign ships. President Washington signed the act and the money was used to pay off the Revolutionary War debt.
VMQG TIL During the 2002 Iraqi election, Saddam Hussein’s campaign song was Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”