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TIL Middle East deserts were once home to rivers, lush green grassland with hippos: Study

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4XmyN TIL Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest state capital in the US & its full name remains La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís which means "The Royal Town of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi" in English.
8pdK TIL that from the 2009-2010 fiscal year, Susan G Komen foundation only donated 20.9% percent of its $390 million in earnings to actual cancer research.
QLrX TIL The Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WW2 returned years later to present his family’s 400 year old sword in apology
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4XZ46 TIL that there is a concept opposite to déjà vu called jamais vu, wherein familiar concepts or situations become seemingly unfamiliar. An example of which is when words sound like jibberish after saying or writing them enough times.