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TIL - Domino's Pizza has a Wedding Registry

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Gmeg TIL that Tilly Smith, 10 years old British schoolgirl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
e0ZvD TIL that India and Pakistan used to be a single country during the British rule, and their partition led to upto 2 million Hindu and Muslim deaths, and migration of 14 million people.
l70O1 TIL The United States is one of the world's largest gold producers, with mines located in states such as Nevada, Alaska, Colorado, and South Dakota.
rREwo TIL that there are only 22 countries in the world that Great Britain HASN'T invaded.
E1850 TIL Of Alfred Kroeber who studied a man he named Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe who walked into the modern world in 1911. In Ishi's culture, knowing ones name gives you power over them, so Ishi just means Man. This idea of magic in naming things influenced Kroeber's daughter Ursula Le Guin.