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TIL There is growing evidence the Amazon Rainforest was actually planned and maintained by indigenous populations by improving the soil and increasing biodiversity

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4k8DJ TIL, dragonball creator Akira Toriyama, took the opportunity to make protagonist; Goku, easier to draw, when he conceived him as the first “super saiyan”.
KK7G TIL George Carlin requested he wear a bandage over his wedding ring when he played Cardinal Glick in the film DOGMA. Carlin’s wife had died before filming and he wasn’t ready to remove his wedding band. Kevin Smith obliged.
AMyo TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off a debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widows home
APvx TIL that Crossing your fingers for luck is actually a Christian symbol for invoking protection by emulating the shape of a cross.
ne5PY TIL that between 1933 and 1935, Germany had a dual flag arrangement to reflect the structure of the government. One flag was the Nazi party’s swastika, and the other was a version of the old tricolour of the former German Empire.