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TIL A single valley in Chad provides over 50% of the nutrient rich dust that is in the Amazon rain forest.

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Axbd TIL human egg and sperm cells can be created from the skin cells of any two humans, regardless of gender, allowing for reproduction
JBGm TIL When the Westboro Baptist Church announced via Twitter that they would protest Steve Job’s funeral, they tweeted it from an iPhone.
1ol8 TIL In Edward “Blackbeard” Teach’s final battle, the notorious pirate captain was shot 5 times and cut or stabbed by a cutlass over 20 times before being killed.
woAQW TIL that, in 1947, there was a proposal to create an independent united Bengali state instead of partitioning Bengal between India and Pakistan. It was not accepted, though it did have some support. (In 1971, east Bengal, also known as East Pakistan, acquired its independence as Bangladesh.)
5YO9p TIL Chimpanzees and some monkeys have entered the stone age.