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TIL Hundred Islands National Park, Phillipines, has 124 islands at low tide but only three of them have been developed for tourism: Governor Island, Quezon Island, and Children's Island. The peculiar "mushroom-like" shapes of some of the islands were caused by the eroding action of ocean waves

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mxEov TIL Gravity moves at the Speed of Light and is not Instantaneous. If the Sun were to disappear, we would continue our elliptical orbit for an additional 8 minutes and 20 seconds, the same time it would take us to stop seeing the light (according to General Relativity).
JYbvV TIL automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking." At that time, "jay" was a derogative term for people from rural areas, like "hick."
e0V6J TIL The entire city of Liverpool, UK has boycotted the tabloid newspaper 'The Sun'
Pprg TIL until Dec 2013, McDonald’s employee help site advised workers to take food stamps, break food into smaller pieces to feel fuller, seek refunds for unopened presents, sell possessions online, and to “quit complaining” as “stress hormone levels rise by 15 percent after ten minutes of complaining.”
a4AL TIL: to counter terrorism during 2004 bus bombings in Israel, bus drivers used squirt guns to spray pig fat on suspected bombers; this way they refuse to detonate and meet allah unclean.