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TIL you cannot drive between Panama and Colombia due to the Darién Gap

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jE1n TIL Traces of cannabis have been found on Shakespeare’s pipe
9YNDB TIL that animal populations are growing in Chernobyl since humans left. Among them, a herd of Przewalski’s horses, the only truly wild horse in the world, introduced in 1998.
1av9d TIL that Pope John Paul II was a polyglot. He spoke 12 languages; Polish, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, German, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Esperanto. He used 9 as Pope. He learned them in 1938, just before the Nazis occupied Poland.
xkB1 TIL Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from an invasion of Japan. They are still being used today.
l7NnN TIL that highest ever bird strike was recorded at the height of 37,000ft (11,470m)