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TIL that the Sahara Desert fertilizes the Amazon rainforest!

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N7EN6 TIL after the international ban on elephant ivory trade in 1990, China has been sourcing ivory from the fossils of mammoths in the melting permafrost of the Russian Arctic.
E1VDP TIL Native Americans domesticated turkeys
wojlM TIL that peacocks, specifically the male peafowl, are capable of flight, but their flying abilities are limited compared to many other bird species.
B00y TIL that Jews and Christians are considered “protected minorities” in Iran, and have seats reserved for them in the Iranian Parliament.
J50k TIL LA was the first major city to sync all it’s traffic lights, doing so in 2015 after initially promising to do so in 1984. The completed synchronization supposedly increased travel speed by 16 percent and reduced travel times by 12 percent.