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TIL in the desert in Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, there are series of thousands ancient huge, wheel-shaped structures which can only be viewed from space, similar to Nazca lines in Peru

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d9E9 TIL The British outlawed the worship of Sopona, the god of smallpox, in Nigeria after a doctor infiltrated a powerful cult of the god’s priests and discovered they were deliberately spreading the disease in a plot to increase their power.
xo97 TIL there are hundreds of mysterious tiles placed all over the world, the ominous message unknown
Y5MZ TIL Pepsi admitted that its Aquafina bottled water is not purified water or spring water, but simply plain tap water
PeGZ TIL there is an island where girls turn into boys at puberty.
QJE8E TIL in 2006 a Washington woman filed for public assistance and was taken to court because 4 different maternity tests claimed she was not the true mother of her children. Turns out she had absorbed her twin in the womb and her reproductive organs have different DNA than the rest of her body!