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TIL that the entire internet is controlled by 14 people who hold 7 keys to the global Domain Name System (DNS) that controls the domain names of every site.

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9JM7 TIL Earthworms were largely extinct in North America after the Ice Age. Reintroduced after Columbus, they transformed the land.
9YXnQ TIL that the Haskalah, often termed Jewish Enlightenment was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The Haskalah promoted rationalism, liberalism, freedom of thought and enquiry, and is largely perceived as the Jewish variant of the general Age of Enlightenment.
gr0O9 TIL that New Hampshire has a coastline
jGkE TIL that 12 African nations have come together pledging to build a 9 mile wide band of trees that will stretch all the way across Africa, 4750 miles, in order to stop the progressive advancement of the Sahara.
yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)