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TIL: Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.

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00lR TIL that during the 2003 Station nightclub fire, a bouncer stopped people from escaping through the stage exit, saying it was “for the band only.” A narrow hallway and panic led to the front doorway blocking completely, trapping many inside. 100 people died in total.
oB9Q7 TIL: The Apollo 13 flight, which launched 49 years ago, still holds the spaceflight record marking the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth.
neX5Y TIL of Märket, a tiny island divided by the finnish-swedish border. When the finns inadvertedly built a lighthouse on the wrong side of the border, the swedes agreed to trade it for an equal spot of land on the other side, causing the border to zig-zag.
L8o9 TIL of the Iron Front, a democratic paramilitary group that opposed the Nazis in the early 1930s, and who’s flag was designed to cross out the Swastika if superimposed on a Nazi flag.
v98K TIL that our oxygen doesn’t come from only trees. In actuality, about 70% of earth’s oxygen comes from the oceans (mainly small marine organisms called phytoplankton).