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TIL Australia is "wider" than the Earth's Moon, but not "bigger" than it

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woZL6 TIL the US Supreme Court has seen and ruled on the Whitest Kids U' Know's "I Want to Kill the President of the United States" sketch. Someone copy-pasted the script in a facebook post to threaten his ex-wife - he was eventually acquitted in an 8-1 decision.
VBgMQ TIL The longest walk ever taken place was by George Meegan. He walked from the bottom of South America to the top of North America. He took 41 million steps, wore out 12.5 pairs of shoes, and collected 8 world records!
b6jVa TIL in 1986, 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" fell down a narrow well and was trapped upside-down for 58 hours
9YE07 TIL John Graves (1572) wished burial within 20 feet of his church; his tombstone is now a in parking lot
0dWZL TIL the northern-most city in the United States renamed itself from Barrow, Alaska to Utqiaġvik in 2016.