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TIL: Romans used geese as guard animals.

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VBG44 TIL the Forest Preserves of Cook County (est. 1914) holds more than 70,000 acres of land making it the oldest and largest preserve system of its kind in the United States.
XArj TIL most world languages don’t distinguish between blue and green
jNJQE TIL in Dunkirk, Hans Zimmer employed the Shepard Tone, an auditory illusion that seemingly ascend or descend in pitch, and sampled the ticking sound of Chris Nolan’s pocket watch, to intensify tension throughout the film.
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