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TIL That Iran surpasses all Muslims countries in teaching evolution in its school curriculum.

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awjoo TIL that links that give no indication of where they'll take you, such as "click here" and nondescript images, have been known as "mystery meat navigation" since 1998. The term makes an analogy to how the producer of mystery meat knows what's in it, but the eater doesn't.
78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
x6Mag TIL in 1868 King Mindon of Myanmar commissioned the Burmese-language Buddhist canon to be written on 729 stone tablets, each 1 meter tall. Each tablet is housed in its own structure at Kuthodaw pagoda in Mandalay. Although now black, the letters were originally inscribed in gold.
p89bb TIL of a French colony in Texas in the 1680’s which was wiped out by Karankawa Native Americans in 1688. Four surviving children of the colonists were adopted by the tribe.
QJRVe TIL Candice Bergen was in constant competition as a child with her father's ventriloquist doll to the opint where the doll had a bigger bedroom and in her father's will the doll got $10,000.... Candice Bergen got nothing