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TIL there’s a tribe in the Amazonas state in Brazil that do not engage in linear thinking and have no words for colors or numbers.

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1nZP TIL in World War II the United States air-dropped thousands of leaflets over 35 Japanese cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which warned citizens that “some or all of the cities … will be destroyed by American bombs” and to “evacuate the cities named and save your lives.”
Bgdjx TIL Around 800 Japanese soldiers may have been eaten by Saltwater Crocodiles during a battle in WW2
v1DQ8 TIL Dolphins are actually small whales
XE7eQ TIL there is such a thing as the history of history, called historiography, where emphasis is placed on studying the history of historical texts.
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye