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

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oB4Yo TIL soon after US President Andrew Jackson was elected, he was given a 630kg (1,400lb) block of cheese from Oswego(NY). Jackson kept this cheese in the White House for his entire term, leaving the home smelling of 4 year old cheese for months after he was replaced by Martin Van Buren in 1837.
rRgW1 TIL in terms of loss of life, Mao is thought to be the worst dictator of all time, with between 14,627,560 & 70,000,000+ deaths to his name.
G4oj TIL During World War II in 1940, Japan bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of fleas carrying the bubonic plague.
R5x17 TIL that before becoming the mayor of Flavortown, Guy Fieri was a TV pitchman for car mufflers
wo6vP TIL the estimate for number of stars in the observable universe is not one per grain of sand on all the beaches in the world - astronomers estimate there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on every beach in the world.