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TIL that In 2017, a team of geologists from New Zealand, New Caledonia, and Australia concluded that Zealandia is a submerged continent, not a microcontinent or continental fragment. The continent's large size and isolation from Australia support its definition as a continent.

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E1abW TIL that the Soviet Union loved Bollywood films. The values of Indian society and the USSR were very similar and the socialist country enjoyed the common rags to riches narrative. In fact, the highest grossing film of the Soviet Era was a 1982 Bollywood film called Disco Dancer.
QJBVk TIL That in France, the French title for Meet the Parents was “My Father-in-Law and Me” so Meet the Spartans is called Spartatouille
LMr9 TIL that the almond is not a nut, but in fact a member of the peach family
yQK5v TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.
6EnNQ TIL that Dimebag Darrell almost joined Megadeth, but declined because there were no spots for Pantera's drummer and Dimebag's brother Vinnie Paul.