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TIL about Australia drifting so fast, GPS has to be corrected.

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VBkem TIL Quinta Brunson (creator of Abbot Elementary) was in the music video for Thundercat’s Dragonball Durag
BDkW TIL since 1974, South Korea has discovered four tunnels dug by North Korea with black-painted walls to make them look like coal mines.
7A1P TIL that a whistleblower named Gustl Mollath was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for claiming that a major bank was engaging in money laundering. A report by the bank itself later leaked, proved that Mollath was right and allowed him to be released.