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TIL There is a demon personification for each of the 7 deadly sins and that Satan and Lucifer are seperate

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v18Kj TIL that sand tiger embryos will consume their siblings before being born.
neWKo TIL In pre-colonial Nigeria there was a city with walls four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops
MYlW TIL For over three years a poor, illiterate Peruvian farmworker Maxima Acuña de Chaupe withstood violent eviction attempts, beatings and a legal battle to allow Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corporation to turn her land into an open-pit gold mine.
rJMW TIL that as of 2013, Bill Gates had personally given US$28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
0wVe1 TIL Daddy Long Legs Spiders used to be called Shepherd Spiders; named after French shepherds who would use stilts to travel over grasslands. Not only were locals able to get around more easily, the stilts were allegedly an extremely speedy method of transport; as fast as a horse in full trot.