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TIL that today, the true source of the Amazon River, the world’s largest river, is still widely disputed

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4XJlo TIL about WASP: the Women Airforce Service Pilots, civilian female pilots who flew in non combat situations for the US Army during WWII
wl5o TIL that rabbits weren’t domesticated until the 7th century AD, and that the reason they were domesticated is that the Catholic church ruled that fetal rabbits were a type of fish and therefore OK to eat during Lent.
N7gyN TIL There is no Wal-Mart in NYC
JYopB TiL there's a "Women Only" village in Kenya, Africa called Umoja Village that was created in 1990 as a safe haven for women escaping violence
yA8 TIL the FBI keeps a publicly-available list of every gang name they come across, indexed by state, and some of the names are hilarious.