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TIL that the river Thames in England is 47 million years older than the Amazon

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N7ArN TIL that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 23 sequels to Tarzan of the Apes. The ape-man discovers he is John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, fights alongside Germans in WWI, finds a colony of Atlantis and the City of Gold, befriends a tribe of dog-sized humans, and has other bizarre adventures.
w1BJ TIL Pokemon was banned in Turkey, because two children tried to imitate their favorite Pokemon and fly
vaXB TIL that Hyperthymesia is a condition that allows people to remember every detail of their lives.
9wprX TIL since 2004 the residents of La California, a town in Italy, have held farcical ballots for the United States presidential elections. Although votes cast by La California residents do not count, they still send the result of each election to the nearby US consulate in Florence
R7Bn6 TIL While advocating for the legalization of birth control, Ethyl Byrne was the first female to be force fed during her hunger strike in jail after 185 hours without food or water.