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TIL that after examining deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest, archaeologists discovered that ancient Amazon Indians had carved massive, flawlessly designed geometric shapes into the ground. They are several hundred yards in diameter.

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X97Q TIL Most lonely people don’t lack social skills. They just find themselves in lonely situations. However, loneliness can create a behavioral trap whereby lonely people focus on “I want this person to like me” in social situations, making themselves uninteresting to others in the process.
rkld TIL that Alice Walton, heir to the Wal-Mart fortune and one of the richest people in the world, has had a history of reckless collisions. Her latest DWI arrest was expunged after the Texas trooper who arrested her was mysteriously suspended, and the statute of limitations was allowed to expire.
rNBlM TIL of Arthur Heineman who built the first motel, the Motel Inn. Despite having no proper architectural training, Heineman also built multiple other buildings, that have made it onto the National Register of Historical Places.
j59R TIL in the 70s the US tapped an underwater comm line located between two USSR harbors using navy divers deployed from a submarine. Submarines returned with divers every month to retrieve the tapes, and The soviets never found out despite having a network of sonar sensors!
vPBDR TIL that the song “Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."