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TIL the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle are the points in which there is at least one day of 24 hours sun and one night of 24 hours of no sun.

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AD51o TIL about the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla, a motley collection of barges and gunboats assembled to defend Chesapeake Bay from the British Royal Navy. The ships were scuttled to prevent capture, and the sailors brought the cannons ashore to defend Washington D.C. in the Battle of Bladensburg.
QNMe TIL In Singapore, if you are convicted of littering three times, you will have to clean the streets on Sundays with a bib on saying, “I am a litterer”.
ADgXn TIL the first area-accurate world map was created in 1999 when Japanese architect Hajime Narukawa invented the Authagraph Projection, which divides a spherical surface into 96 triangles, transfers them to a tetrahedron while maintaining area proportions, and unfolds into a rectangle.
D1p7g TIL about Jonathan, a turtoise who was hatched in the 1830’s and is still alive today
e944 TIL that two men vanished months apart after being pulled over by the same Police Officer