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TIL that Portugal submitted an application to honour Magellan's circumnavigation route via the World Heritage List

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x64Qk TIL Stanford University rejected 69% of the applicants with a perfect SAT score between 2008-2013.
0warv TIL Sting's wife Trudie Styler filmed a 90-minute documentary about the making of "The Emperor's New Groove" and its transformation from drama to comedy by executive fiat. Disney has never officially released the documentary, but it can be found on YouTube
bKp0 TIL: More than 80% of the gold in California is still in the ground
DQW5D TIL Germany was technically the first nation to send the first human-made object into space during WWII: the V2 rocket
0wYbR TIL that English is the most efficient language