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TIL, that in 2001, two one-thousand-year-old Mississippian burial grounds were excavated in order to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter

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vPX0D TIL That the transition of the Ming to Qing dynasty in China took 65 years and cost approximately 25 million lives.
kJJLE TIL that ant colonies are almost entirely female. Queen, soldiers, workers…all female. Males have ONE job. They do it and die…life span about 1 week
Olda TIL Central Park’s rivers and streams are entirely artificial and can be turned on and off.
pY8nZ TIL: The Beaver magazine had to change name, because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers
40gw TIL that Douglas Bader was a pilot who could sustain more G-Forces in combat because he had no legs.