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TIL Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains

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ADnla TIL that for centuries the city of Troy was considered a myth until it was re-discovered in 1871 in present day Turkey. The area had been excavated before but the ruins of Troy were beneath newer excavations and had gone untouched for millennia even though the site had people living on top of it.
LLAQ TIL that Chunk from The Goonies has a business law degree from UCLA and is a practicing lawyer
dVx9 TIL Just 3 years after the Civil War a man walked 1400 miles through the former Confederate states with a Union flag to disprove claims of lingering hatred.
6QyW TIL there have been no recorded human deaths due to a meteorite fall.
dDAN9 TIL John Brabazon Ponsonby was arrested during the French Revolution for being an aristocrate but was let free because he was too handsome to hang.