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TIL, from 461 to 468, the Pope Was Hilarius.

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m10Wx TIL that there is a town in Upstate New York called Neversink, Ironically, the original Neversink was permanently flooded when the Neversink reservoir was built.
neMM9 TIL that Lima is the second largest desert city after Cairo. The city faces acute water shortage due to very low precipitation. To solve their water shortage issues, the locals use meshed fog catchers made of bamboo frames to harvest water from the thick sea fog that covers Lima all year round.
aww9M TIL that since the term Least Developed Country was introduced by the UN in 1971 only four countries have improved to Developing Countries (Botswana in 1994, Cabo Verde in 2007, Maldives in 2011 and Samoa in 2014)
awKPA TIL the USPS had plans to replace their fleet with EVs in response to the 1979 oil crisis. Their prototype had a range of 40 miles.
wdQo TIL when Paris’s Cemetery of the Innocents was moved, the human remains (decomposed to mostly fat deposits) were made into candles.