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TIL Death Valley, the lowest elevation in the USA, continues to sink lower due to geologic activity

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Lk1GP TIL that in 1999 Sergio Motsoeneng finished in the top 10 in famous Comrades Ultra-marathon by exchanging places with virtually identical brother Fika at toilet stops. Brothers were caught after a newspaper published photos showing them wearing watches on opposite wrists.
l0ZB TIL drug companies routinely bribe universities to skew doctor’s courses in their favor
grmQy TIL of Antonio Meucci, an Italian American who invented the telephone, but economic problems and his difficulty in communicating in English prevented him from being recognized as its inventor
M71ZB TIL that in 1957, Congress voted to de-authorize Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota because the site became devoid of fossils due to pillaging and they were no longer able to justify it's existence as a unit of the NPS.
MR8A TIL that Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910