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TIL Warsaw has two large business districts publicly known as Mordor and Isengard. Although not official, names are commonly used by locals and one of them recently got streets named after J.R R. Tolkien and Gandalf.

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5YPpn TIL that Spanish military outpost Penon de Velez de la Gomera on the Moroccan coastline forms the shortest international border in the entire world, spanning only 74 meters. It was also once an island until a 1934 storm left the sandy isthmus that serves as the border today.
GvG1 TIL Pamela Anderson is Canada’s “Centennial Baby”, having been the first baby born on July 1, 1967, the 100th anniversary of Canada’s official founding
7rggr TIL animal life in Chernobyl is thriving, not because the radiation is gone, there’s still a lot of it, but because there’s barely any humans living in that area.
p8ZB8 TIL People have a cognitive bias where they over-estimate how noticeable their embarrassing behaviour is to others.
5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”