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TIL that Detroit is further east than Atlanta

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ZpyWo TIL that some medieval monks interpreted the scriptural Nemo Deum vidit (“No one hath seen God”), along with many other references to No-one in the Bible, to mean that Nemo was a certain person. Everything impossible, inadmissible, inaccessible is, on the contrary, permitted for Nemo.
loEo5 TIL: Human corpses keep moving for a year after death.
6EDN7 TIL the York Peppermint Patty was created by Henry Kessler at his York Cone Company in 1940, located in York, Pennsylvania. They are now manufactured in Mexico.
NppN TIL that The Simpsons episode “Marge vs. the Monorail” was written by Conan O'Brien.
VBkBD TIL the White Lion brought African indentured servants to what became the USA a year before the mayflower.