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TIL that if you drilled a hole through the center of the earth from Formosa Province in Argentina, you’d end up on the island of Formosa. This was not known when the two places were named in the 1500s.

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njRd TIL Less than 18% of fathers receive custody of their child after a divorce.
ANW47 TIL of George Cove, a Canadian inventor who, in 1905, developed a solar electric generator. He was kidnapped and offered $25,000 and a house to stop promoting his devices.
DQYLv TIL there’s a parasite that makes rats attracted to cat urine so they get eaten and the parasite goes into the cat, its preferred host
P1Maw TIL In 1942, German submarines sunk a British passenger ship. They surfaced to collect survivors, announced their presence to the allies and sailed under a Red Cross flag. The U-Boats were attacked by allied planes, forcing the submarine to throw all the survivors back into the sea and crash dive.
ANMRl Til in season 8 of Diff’rent Stokes Actress Beverly Brown played the role of a high school junior at age 62