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TIL East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste) is the only country in Asia that is located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Z8wbD TIL that there is an FAA regulation called the 'Sterile Cockpit Rule', requiring flight crews to only discuss topics pertinent to the safety and operation of the flight below 10,000 feet.
LkRZ0 TIL that Conrad Veidt, whose depiction of the lead in "The Man Who Laughs" inspired The Joker, married a Jewish woman in defiance of the growing power of the Nazi party. Although he was not Jewish, he wrote "Jewish" on his racial identification card. The couple wisely fled Germany for England.
07Oy TIL British empire, “the empire on which the sun never sets”, was the largest empire in history. By 1922 it held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world’s population at the time. The empire covered more than 13,012,000 sq mi, almost a quarter of the Earth’s total land area.
4EQX TIL after the Haiti earthquake the “Feed The Children” website claimed that the charity was “providing medical relief for 12,000 people”. In reality they sent a total of three doctors, and two weeks after the eartquake it emerged that they had fed zero people.
e6x5 TIL FOX owns the rights to the Simpsons until 2082