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TIL the African continent is peeling apart and a new ocean will form over the course of time.

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J1l74 TIL that during the Vietnam War, the Battle of Hamburger Hill was named by American soldiers who felt the intense, grinding combat was like being “chewed up like hamburger meat.” Fought over Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley, the battle resulted in high casualties after ten days of fierce fighting.
P1NnG TIL the Sultan of Brunei and his brother bought so many bespoke Bentleys that it saved the entire company from bankruptcy
X0pRk TIL Trix removed artificial coloring from it's cereal but reversed course because people complained
ADakw TIL TV host Soupy Sales was once suspended for asking his young viewers to send him "little green pieces of paper" taken from their parents' wallets.
yVx9p TIL The first telegraph wasn’t electric, it was optical. The Chappe Telegraph was used extensively in France from the early 1790s to the invention of the electric telegraph in in mid 1800s.