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TIL Ethiopia is likely to be the birth place of modern Homo sapiens based on radioactive dating

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OrZe TIL dry counties (counties where the sale of alcohol is banned) have a drunk driving fatality rate ~3.6 times higher than wet counties.
9xlD TIL 95% of phones sold in Japan are completely waterproof.
Oo7o6 TIL the SS Richard Montgomery was an American Ship during WW2 that was carrying 7000 tons of munitions to Europe which sank and today holds thousands of tons of explosives and ammo near London.
167eP TIL skilled sheepdogs sell for $30,000 or more.
KYXAB TIL that Saudi Arabia is planning to construct a 1600 ft tall, 75 mile long skyscraper in their arid Northwest region at an estimated cost of $100-$200 billion