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TIL there are terrestrial leeches in the jungles of Asia!

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Gmeg TIL that Tilly Smith, 10 years old British schoolgirl, saved her family and 100 other tourists from the 2004 Asian tsunami, by recognizing signs of tsunamis she had learned in a geography lesson two weeks before.
D1N1g TIL Ireland has finally reached its population level from the Great Famine. So Ireland as a whole finally has the same amount of people it had 170 years ago.
PKwg TIL thaat the Ebola virus is named after a nearby river Ebola where the first victim was identified in 1976
Om66 TIL Ancient Mesoamericans discovered how to produce rubber around 1600BCE, more than 3000 years before Charles Goodyear invented vulcanization.
6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).