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TIL The 'ancient city of Machu Picchu' is only 550 years old. The Tower of London predates it by almost 400 years.

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b67vp TIL the guy who (supposedly) inspired the film The Terminal wasn’t the only person to have lived in an airport. There’s a whole list of them, including a guy who lived in an airport for 27 years!
gZ08 TIL that the area code around Cape Canaveral is 3……….2……….1
78Lex TIL that identical twins have a unique DNA signature that lasts a lifetime, and scientists can now tell if someone was originally conceived as a twin.
l4bG TIL that NASA had released an 18-minute Ultra HD 4K video tour of the ISS last year, showing the space station in its full high-definition glory.
e0MxD Til there was an early horse with three toes called the Mesohippus and it is less than half the size of modern horses from 35 million years ago until they moved to grasslands, grew and their toes later fused into a hoof