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TIL that Researchers had found 100 Percent Match Between Mysterious Hairs and Ancient Polar Bear DNA

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9KdQ TIL in 2007 Islamic scholars in Malaysia spent a year working out how the country’s first astronaut could pray facing Mecca. He was allowed to save his Ramadan fasting till his return
7B47 TIL Google has been interested in becoming a wireless carrier like Verizon and AT&T since 2012.
jNRja TIL in Iceland, if you don’t know the address to where you want your mail to go, you can hand-draw a map to your destination on the envelope
Z8Lo TIL that Ayn Rand spent the last 6 years of her life on Social Security and Medicare, after a lifetime of condemning both programs.
LkPGP TIL about Confraternities of Nigeria- secretive groups that are sort of like college fraternities, except they have been known to kill people, terrorize professors and commit other acts of organized crime.