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TIL that JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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TIL that human laughter evolved from the distinctive panting by our great-ape relatives during rough and tumble play; that panting functions as a signal that the play is all in good fun and not an attack.
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TIL Pakistan's biggest company is its Army - which sells everything from cereal boxes to marriage venues
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TIL Eddie Van Halen has a registered patent with the most epic patent drawing ever made – scroll to 2nd page.
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TIL the most expensive Mega-Project ever was Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System, costing 500 billion dollars, and dwarfing the cost of every other Mega-Project in history.
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TIL of the ecocide at Chaco Canyon. When the Anasazis arrived at Chaco Canyon, it was a dense woodlands, but after years of deforestation, harmful farming practices, and finally a drought, the area is now a desert. Occupation there only lasted around 200 years.