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TIL humans may have accidentally caused climate change once before– 11,000 years ago, by killing off woolly mammoths, which transformed North American grasslands into birch forests, which in turn burned so intensely that the climate in North America changed.

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Zpvmp TIL Australia has no national Bill of Rights making it the only democracy in the world with this limitation in their legal system.
a8WRb TIL that before the 16th century, most carrots were purple
ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India
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b9nE4 TIL that male fruit flies seek out alcohol when sexually rejected