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TIL Eevee is part fox, dog, cat and rabbit, causing it to have an "irregularly-shaped genetic code"

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woLmW TIL about Fordlândia, a very large plot of land that Henry Ford purchased in Brazil. He developed and utilized this land in order to try and meet the need for his own rubber production for his car tires. This project would eventually fail and was abandoned in 1934.
aMmZ TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
GMVQ TIL that the original name for Atlanta, Georgia was Terminus which literally translates to “the end of the line”.
M7kK7 TIL about the Lost Children of the Alleghenies, two young children who disappeared from their home in Pavia, PA in 1856. They died from exposure after being missing for several days and were found in the forest by a local farmer who dreamt,for two nights, of clues that led to the children's bodies.
GAgk7 TIL that Michael Jackson had a patent on the shoes he used in Smooth Criminal, the ones that allowed him to lean forward at a 45° angle.