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TIL that a Freedom of Information request by Uk’s The Sunday Times newspaper in 2012 revealed that Blair’s government considered knighting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.

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8aPL8 TIL the ginkgo tree, an incredibly popular tree planted in cities worldwide, is the last remaining member of its phyla and would be extinct today if not cultivated by Buddhist monks for centuries
ZbWR TIL that after the release of the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, tourists came to Thailand to see the fictional bridge. Since there never was a bridge on the Kwai, the Thai renamed a portion of the Mae Klong river containing a bridge to satisfy the tourists.
WjMB TIL Oil is cheaper than water in Venezuela.
4X5oR TIL: A recent study of dinosaur eggshells supports the idea that dinosaurs may have been warm blooded
Lykr TIL Icelanders can easily read old norse, dead language that was spoken in scandinavia 1000 years ago because written Icelandic has changed so little.