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TIL, that France shares its largest border with Brazil

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YbMW TIL: In 1962, an author named Kerry Wendell Thornley published a book called The Idle Warriors, which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
xVrng TIL that during the Age of Exploration (1500-1800) at least 2 million sailors died from scurvy.
Wkdp4 TIL that the British government built a 1,100 mile long Great Hedge of India to enforce a salt tax in Northern India but failed horribly since people started throwing salt over the hedge
E10wV TIL that when Canadian serial killer Wayne McGray was sentenced, he said “Just because I’m locked up in segregation doesn’t mean I can’t kill somebody”. Ten years into his sentence, he killed a cellmate.
gMXR8 TIL in 1941 George Hopkins parachuted onto Devils Tower without permission and nobody could figure out how to get him down.