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TIL that the Turia river in Valencia was permanently diverted after constant flooding causing damage to surrounding areas, the old riverbed is now a verdant sunken park.

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d8x99 TIL the flags of many African nations have the colors green, gold and red borrowed from the flag of Ethiopia, which remained outside European control during the colonial era by defeating Italy. As a result, the country drew the admiration of many newly independent states in Africa.
wL0OP TIL world’s first 1 GB hard drive was announced by IBM in 1980. Its price was of $40, 000!
d86E8 TIL: the "law of the instrument", a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
N7MOb TIL levels of oxytocin (the trust hormone) are boosted in both the human and the dog when both make eye contact
GY1bj TIL There was a speech drafted in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon. “For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.”