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TIL New Zealand is part of a vast submerged continent known to scientists as Zealandia.

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w4g6 TIL that once it was clear that Constantinople would fall to the Turks, Constantine XI, the last Byzantine emperor, tore of his imperial ornaments and led his soldiers on one last final charge against the invading Turks.
8aZ4a TIL there is a "zip bomb" that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but 4.5 Petabytes when uncompressed.
OGeV4 TIL: That the term "Milquetoast", meaning a timid person, is often mistakenly spelled as "Milk Toast". But in a weird twist, the timid cartoon character of Caspar Milquetoast for whom the term is coined, was actually named after milk toast because of it's blandness! So both terms are correct!
lojkB TIL I learned of an autorotation, a maneuver to stop a falling helicopter during engine failure
GEn1 TIL that the trickle-down-economics Republicans support, also called “horse-and-sparrow theory”, is in German also named “Pferdeäpfel-Theorie”. A “Pferdeapfel” is literally horseshit.