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TIL the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most esteemed reference works in history, was initially constructed via properly cited user submissions, much like Wikipedia.

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E1gpX TIL that France, Britain, and Ireland are home to a combined 15 of the 20 oldest known buildings in the world. The oldest, Barnenez in France, dates to 4800 BC. Over 2,000 years older than the oldest pyramid in Egypt.
ZJZa TIL that in 2013, the CIA publicly acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time.
m1apx TIL the body of water that includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is known to German oceanographers as the American Mediterranean Sea
arky TIL we have been to the deepest parts of the ocean, only to find that our own trash beat us there.
0v1y TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.