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TIL about Goyder’s Line. A geographic divide in South Australia between the drought ridden areas and farmable land. Despite being surveyed on horseback in a single trip in 1864 it has been proved to be highly accurate to date.

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5YEp9 TIL UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention was created to preserve the Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt. After the Nasser Dam was built, the temple was briefly submerged underwater and a large effort was undertaken to relocate the mountain it was carved on and rebuild the temple piece by piece.
5VYyQ TIL about the Ryugyong Hotel, which North Korea has been trying to open since 1987
gMLyb TIL: Mr. Peanut was created by grade schooler Antonio Gentile for a 1916 contest to design the company's brand icon.
oBpk7 TIL about Dinah, a slave woman who alerted of two British soldiers attempting to burn Stenton Hall in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War, and saved the legacy home from arson. However, she was only recognized by the Stenton Hall legacy as "Faithful Colored Caretaker".
MevMK TIL Scarlett Johansson is currently the world's highest-paid actress since 2018. She also has no active social media accounts as she stated "she does not see the need to continuously share details of her everyday life" during an interview with Interview magazine in 2011.