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TIL that JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

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M7KXa TIL about The Nature Consevancy NGO which owns and protects 119 million acres (almost the size of spain) of land with valuable biodiversity
b6YWE TIL that it is still technically legal to throw human shit outside of your window in Edinburgh if you do it at night and if you say "Gardez l’eau!" as the Nastiness Act has never been repealed.
9YDGG TIL that the country of Kiribati has the most advanced time on Earth (UTC+14 hours), and the entire country is spread across all four hemispheres in an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the continental United States.
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