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TIL It's now thought that Pacific Islanders traded with South Americans around the same time as the Vikings visited North America. This was found through potato genetic analysis.

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nWjdP TIL the Guinness Book of World Records originated from an argument over the fastest game bird in Europe.
oKlL TIL in early 2015, the unmanned spacecraft, “Dawn”, is scheduled to arrive at Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in our solar system’s asteroid belt.
neKBb TIL that COLLABORATIONISM does not carry the same positive connotation as its root word. It instead refers to the carrying out an act of treason; most commonly applicable to WW-II
D1xaD TIL that the master of a Cambridge University college that banned dogs from accommodation has been allowed to keep his rescue bassett hound after persuading officials it was "a very large cat."
Eg8rW TIL that the record for the longest gap between release and reaching number one on the Billboard charts was set by the Mariah Carey song "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which first reached number one in the United States 25 years after its release.