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Til: that the word meander comes from the name of a river in Turkey.

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8V94 TIL: The most remote location on Earth lies in the South Pacific and is known as “Nemo Point”. So remote in fact, the closest humans to this point would be the astronauts on the ISS that occasionally drift overhead.
N7OQ1 TIL that rare percentage of females develop undescended testes with an absent uterus leading to a high level of testosterone in the system.
5VeVr TIL a child under five of unknown parentage found within the United States is considered to be a US Citizen at birth, unless shown otherwise before their 21st birthday, per 8 U.S. Code § 1401.
R5n56 TIL George Jennings invented the public toilet. It premiered at the Great Exhibition in 1851 and cost one penny to use the toilet. Since then, "To spend a penny" became a euphemism for going to the toilet in the United Kingdom
9wB4p TIL all of Jimmy Carter's siblings and father died from pancreatic cancer