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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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YbjG TIL that when our inner voice speaks in our head, it is accompanied by subtle muscle movements from our larynx.
6Ey5l TIL that a tesla coil was the first device ever made to wirelessly transmit power. Nichola tesla had dreams of putting them all over the world, before realizing they were to inefficient and trying to sell them as death rays to the soviet union
O1BL TIL That a server at the University of North Carolina was physically lost for 4 years (although online) until they physically traced the cables and discovered it had been walled off.
YpnoP TIL in 1988, during the crack epidemic, temperatures in New York City exceeded 90 every day for two months causing the murder rate to increase by 75%
neZpr TIL that the Japanese language has only 100 syllables. But, it takes knowledge of about 1900 characters to write words with them. English has over 2600 one-syllable words, and thousands of different syllables, all of which are written using only 26 characters.