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TIL When the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865, 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil.

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l7NkK TIL that Ron Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for most appearances in adult films at +2k films where he 'performed.' His father was a physicist professor at New York's Queens College, while his mother was an US Office of Strategic Services officer and book editor.
woOmW TIL a cave pool in Death Valley called Devil’s Hole experiences a “desert tsunami” when high magnitude earthquakes occur even thousands of miles away, risking endangering the pupfish species which exist nowhere on earth but this cave in heart of one of the most dry deserts on earth.
d059 TIL There are huge “stepwells” in India up to 13 stories deep which keep the water 5-6 degrees cooler than it is at the surface
JYvGl TIL: Somebody is using a retired 727 as a home outside Portland, OR
8aGyb TIL Breakfast wasn’t regarded as the most important meal of the day until an aggressive marketing campaign by General Mills in 1944. They would hand out leaflets to grocery store shoppers urging them to eat breakfast, while similar ads would play on the radio.