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TIL Japan has its own version of Atlantis
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TIL Lignum Vitae is a hard wood that was originally used to make propeller shaft bearings for ships and submarines.
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TIL Al Roker and Lenny Kravitz are second cousins.
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TIL Inuit choral music in Inuktitut language was published for the first time in 2021 by a music teacher in Nunavut with a PhD in ethnomusicology
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TIL that Pope Leo XIII 1810-1902 endorsed a popular wine that had 6 to 7.2 mg of cocaine per ounce. He was purported to have carried a hipflask of it with him and he awarded a gold medal to the French chemist who concocted it.
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TIL that ‘prosthetics’ refers to the science of creating artificial body parts, while the artificial parts themselves are called ‘prostheses’.