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TIL one part of Istanbul lies in Europe and the other part lies in Asia. European part is separated from it's asian part by the Bhosphorus strait

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xV5RB TIL: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) was the most expensive film produced in the 1980s ($70 mil) and had the longest on-screen credits for a film.
BZyx TIL in 2009 Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)
mLwY TIL the LAPD had Christine Collins committed to a psych ward in 1928 after her son Walter went missing because when the LAPD “found him” 5 months later, she denied that the boy returned to her was her child. The boy eventually confessed to being a runaway. The real Walter was never found.
OGZO7 TIL a schoolteacher once got a kidney transplant where the donor was a chimpanzee. The teacher lived for nine months and in the autopsy, the chimp kidneys looked perfectly fine without any signs of rejection.
PB8g Til that Pakistan puts nuclear warheads in unmarked vans and drives them around the country in a never ending road trim to “keep them safe.”