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TIL there's a city called "The Bottom"

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a8OEL TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had named St. Isidore of Seville as the patron saint of the Internet, as the seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who wrote the sole encyclopedia for nearly a millenium around 650 AD.
Morm TIL the lowest class of meat called ‘Canner’ is used for dog food… and school lunches.
xV91g TIL that in 1951, a woman sitting in her Florida apartment caught on fire. When found the next day, all that was left was her backbone, her left foot and her skull, shrunk to the size of a cup. Nothing else in the apartment burned. Police were stumped. Some think it was spontaneous human combustion.
PY0ow TIL that when he was 15, Stan Lee entered a high school essay competition held by the New York Herald Tribune, and he won for 3 straight weeks until the newspaper wrote him and asked him to let someone else win. Later, the newspaper said he should look into writing professionally
NXVGE TIL that woodlice are not insects, they are crustaceans and are related to lobsters.