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TIL The Wisconsin River used to flow "backwards" into the Great Lakes basin instead of into the Mississippi River.

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l5QK TIL North Korea enlists around 2000 women as part of a ‘Pleasure Squad’. These are attractive women who provide entertainment and sexual services for top officials. One defector says Kim Jong-il was “sentimental when drunk, and even shed tears”
R7DG8 TIL that a German football club was banned from playing for 12 months in 1934 for failing to give the Nazi salute at the start of a game.
g7NL TIL The Actors of Mad Men Smoke Herbal Cigarettes
oBYoo TIL Anne Hathaway won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Les Misérables with only 15 minutes of screentime across the entire film
p8NOe TIL the longest car in the world was 100 feet long, had 26 wheels, a jacuzzi, diving board, king-sized water bed, and a helicopter landing pad, and was called the ‘American Dream’.