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TIL Hawaii’s Big Island is home to 11 of the world’s 13 climate zones.

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Bwdd TIL that during the MH370 missing plane coverage, CNN anchor Don Lemon asked a panel: ‘Is It Preposterous’ to Think a Black Hole Caused Flight 370 to Go Missing?
WkJOd TIL about 40% of all Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyễn. It is also the 7th most popular surname in Australia, and 2nd in Melbourne in particular.
QN95k TIL - Africa is 14x larger than what it is shown on popular map (Mercator)
y8XM TIL There is a type of Catfish that lays its eggs among the eggs of the Cichlid fish, which carries its young in its mouth. These eggs will then hatch first inside the unwilling adoptive mother’s mouth, and proceed to eat the Cichlid eggs present before being released by the Cichlid.
v1pQr TIL of "hunger stones": the Central European practice of marking river levels with carved stones during droughts, to warn future generations that there will be a famine if the water level again gets low enough to see the carving. This has been done at least since 1115, and as recently as 2018.