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TIL that geologists have discovered a fault system that could make North America a much closer neighbor to Europe

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OoA01 TIL in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, a Celebrity cruise ship rerouted to deliver food, water and aid to survivors in the Bahamas. Kitchen staff made around 10,000 meals & guests volunteered to pack them.
N7xwM TIL about an actual "Sleeping Beauty" in that there's a 99 year old (100 this coming December) perfectly preserved body of a 1 year old, named Rosalia Lombardo. She died of Pneumonia in 1920 & filled with grief, her father enlisted Alfredo Salafia to embalm her body so she can be preserved forever.
N7rkP TIL Elephants are being hunted for their tusks so much that some populations of elephants have now actually evolved to be tuskless.
rP1o TIL that ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ is rated out of 11 instead of 10 on IMDb because of the famous scene from the film
W7XQB TIL about a monument in Kyoto, Japan called Mimizuka (Ear Mound). Known as the city's least mentioned and most often avoided tourist attraction, it contains at least 68,000 noses severed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).