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TIL Mountains of Kong, a non-existent mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s

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p5rA TIL that around 90% of East Asians are lactose intolerant, which explains why Chinese food doesn’t contain cheese.
4X1LR TIL about hypnagogic hallucinations: Visual, tactile, auditory, or other sensory events that occur at the transition from wakefulness to sleep
ReM9 TIL Crocodiles Are More Closely Related To Birds Than They Are To Lizards
oEMK TIL of the swimming pigs of the Bahamas. They live freely on the beaches, and after basking in the sun for hours, they swim in the surf. The pigs are exceptionally friendly, running from under the shade of the almond trees to greet visitors that bring them treats.
nW9Vo TIl that in 1964 a Swedish journalist did an experiment where he had a chimpanzee named Peter make a series of pantings and then submitted them to an art show as by Pierre Brassau to see if critics could tell the difference between avant grande art and art by a chimp. Most critics fell for it