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TIL that the African Union has a 43-party free trade zone for goods, stretching from South Africa to Tunisia

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XE1rk TIL the coastal hillsides of Japan have “tsunami stones” placed by previous generations. The stones indicate the high-water mark of previous tsunamis, with a warning to not build structures below. Heeding such warnings kept some places safe from damage during the 2011 tsunami.
LQAop TIL William Wesley Peters was the son-in-law of both Frank Lloyd Wright and Joseph Stalin
b9EX7 TIL of Project A119 - a US Cold War plan to nuke the moon
D1LYj TIL India and Pakistan fought a war in the mountains at over 20,000 feet in altitude (6,000 meters) in 1984
x6bV5 TIL the kid characters in Nickelodeon's "Hey Arnold!" (1996) were all voiced by real kids.