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TIL that researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered another job for introverts: grammar police.

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VMdnZ TIL of Aditya and Poonam Singh, an Indian couple who have been buying acres of farmland around the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve & letting the forest grow back for the past 20 years.
DNOj TIL Chattanooga Tennessee enjoys free internet that ranks among the fastest in the world- not as a corporate scheme, but as a public utility
G8DG TIL 19th century Czech anatomist-physiologist, Jan Purkyně (Johann Purkinje), was so famous that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all they had to put as the address was “Purkyně, Europe”.
a8P19 TIL: Korean cosmetics alone ranked first in the U.S. import cosmetics market share (beating out France’s Chanel and Lancome for the first time) capturing 22% of the market with a value of $1.4 billion.
jXjQ TIL:of Pando a grove of 47,000 or so trees that is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system.