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TIL Google Maps is so advanced it lists planned roads that do not yet exist.

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jN9xE TIL that the female spotted hyena has the largest clitoris of all the mammals, which is referred to as a 'pseudo-penis'.
ZbG TIL: That in 1991 Spacewatch discovered an artificial body near earth that is now listed on the NASA Astrophysics data system as a possible alien probe that was observed in the vicinity of our planet. It’s orbit will bring it back to the earth in 2016.
woYOE TIL about Yagli Gures or Turkish Oil Wrestling. During matches men wear leather pants, are covered in oil, and the main objective is sticking your hand down your opponents pants to gain control.
gaW8 TIL Tolkien and Hitler fought in opposite sides in the battle of the Somme,in WWI.
kJvK1 TIL the earliest description of the heliocentric model dates back to Ancient Greece. Aristarchus of Samos (c.310–c.230 BC) described the Earth spinning on its axis once per day and orbiting a fixed Sun. He also thought that stars were other suns much further away.