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TIL that the bottom of a tectonic plate off Portugal’s coast is peeling off, causing the plates to start grinding beneath each other and creating a subduction zone.

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x6oo5 TIL: The first city to honor the Twin Towers attacks with a monument was Lisbon
yQjoJ TIL a sitting US President was once arrested: Ulysses Grant was forced to go with his arresting officer to the police station to answer for the charge of speeding his horses through town.
4XK4a TIL that Divine Brown known for her tryst with Hugh Grant in 1995 reportedly made $1.6 M due to the publicity, sent her kids to private school, bought a home in Beverly Hills and changed her life around.
E1NKX TIL there was an experiment where three people, who each believed they were Jesus Christ, were made roommates at a psychiatric ward. At first, they argued over who was holiest and even fistfought. Eventually, each patient wrote the other two off as being crazy.
rRQ1w TIL legendary R&B/soul singer Barry White was jailed for 4 months at age 16 for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires. While in jail, he heard Elvis Presley singing “Now Or Never” on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.