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TIL that pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass, as they have for hundreds of years, on lake Titicaca

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YpQG7 TIL Djibouti author Abdourahman Waberi wrote a story about a world in which Africa was more advanced compared to the West. In her writing, Zurich held the highest rate of AIDS infections and African leaders were making broad pronouncements about the hoards of impoverished, starving Japanese
5Ykar Our brains keep us 15 seconds 'in the past' to help us see a stable world
jbyN TIL Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge was found in 1996. There’s a conservation project to bring it to the surface.
PRXO TIL as part of their bid for the 2022 world cup, Japan proposed filming the matches with 200 HD cameras and then project these as life-size holograms in other stadiums around the world.
lBL1 TIL that when Keith Moon collapsed mid-concert, a 19 year old kid climbed on stage and played drums for The Who.