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TIL Earths Geographical North Pole is actually earths Southern Magnetic Pole.

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6Nmm TIL a study shows pilots are less likely to correctly listen to a warning system with a female voice rather than a male one
d4e7 TIL there exists a massive abandoned supercollider in Texas.
yVVVe TIL of Kármán line - a line to delineate aeronautics and astronautics, to differentiate between earth's atmosphere and outer space, maintained by the FAI. It is situated at a distance of 100km from the earth's surface.
XED0E TIL A Wyoming woman maintains and regularly uses a 122 year old sourdough starter to make pancakes. The starter is older than the state of Wyoming itself.
MeWRW TIL When Rick James attended a dinner party in Hawaii with Salvador Dali, Dali insisted on drawing him, sketched him on a napkin and gave it to him. The priceless memento became an inky blob the next morning when he smoked a joint and went swimming with the napkin still in his swim trunks.