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TIL Finland has a unit of measurement, “poronkusema,” that means “the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate.”

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DQQNg TIL Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone was created after his planned work about racism in America was refused by networks. This was in response to the murder of Emmett Till.
WemX TIL from 1970 to 2010, populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by an average of 52%. We are not in the “beginning” of the Sixth Great Extinction. We are in the middle of it.
4mJb TIL of the Hess Triangle: the smallest privately-owned plot of land in New York City.
QgwX TIL Weird Al Yankovic said he knew he’d made it as a famous musician when he went to a party, saw Paul McCartney and before he could introduce himself to the former Beatle, McCartney recognized him and said, “Hey! It’s Weird Al!”
R7b9 TIL president Jimmy Carter left the nuclear launch codes in his suit at the dry cleaners.