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TIL: Lake Chad in Central Africa is the remnant of an ancient inland sea referred to as Mega Chad

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VMGyk TIL that it currently takes more information to obtain a library card than to form a US company
9Y15M TIL that brain freeze is a not-very serious condition that is simply your body’s reaction to eating too-cold foods. Its scientific name is "phenopalatine ganglioneuralgia"
l77K7 TIL of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.
906D TIL Jackie Chan dislocated his pelvis, which was previously thought to be impossible, while filming ‘Police Story’ in 1985.
BgKgd TIL in 2012 LL Cool J broke the nose, jaw, and ribs of a man charged with breaking into his home. His family was sleeping when their home security alarm went off at 1am, "sending LL Cool J into action". After catching the man, he held him until the authorities arrived.