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TIL there is a 120 meter wide circular island in Argentina which continuously rotates

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WkjA TIL J. D. Tippit was a police officer with the Dallas Police who, according to two government investigations, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Oswald’s initial arrest was for Tippit’s murder, not Kennedy’s
dldr TIL 30% of the air pollution in California is from Asia
QZJk TIL until the 20th century, Egyptians believed that men menstruated. This was because of Schistosomiasis, an extremely common disease that causes bloody urine.
1abmD TIL Every Middle-American Baby Boomer has been Time's Person of the Year at least 3 times: 1966 (The Inheritor), 1969 (Middle Americans), and 2006 (You)
p8gDe TIL that the "oh!" in "Unbelievable" by EMF is a sample of Andrew "Dice" Clay.