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TIL Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first to suggest that space and time were one.

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LmNV TIL A Canadian brigade got to New Orleans to provide aid for Katrina victims faster than the US Government.
N7AP8 TIL that Ethiopia, a country in Eastern Africa, has a population of 110 million people and is twice the size of the US state of Texas
e0M5 TIL in the U.K., hipsters are known as ‘dickheads’
mxmYP TIL - In 1987 a jury awarded Michael Donald's mother $7 million in damages against the United Klans of America after 4 members lynched her son in '81 & this settlement bankrupted the organization.
XEK7D TIL After officially being prohibited for many years, eating beef in Japan was legalised in 1871 as part of an effort to introduce western culture to the country