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TIL that Scruffy, the lovable janitor from Futurama, was a zombie.

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MeWEA TIL buildings in Hong Kong have huge square gaps (AKA "Dragon Gates") carved out of them in order to let these mythical flying creatures pass freely through structures as they migrate back and forth between the mountains and the ocean
9w5V6 TIL the alligator from Happy Gilmore is alive and thriving in Colorado
dDZnB TIL famed physicist Richard Feynman donated "93 boxes" of papers and writings to Caltech, which has never digitized any of it and will only provide access physically in the reading room of the Caltech Archives to qualified researchers. Caltech holds no copyright on the work.
l95r TIL LGBT activists in Australia created a kingdom in nearby islands called the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands. The national flag is the LGBT color flag, and the official currency is the Euro.
J1RZ8 TIL the longest theoretical sight line at ground level on earth is Hindu-tagh in China to Mt. Dankova in Kyrgyzstan at 538 Km, while the longest photographed sight line is from the Spanish Pyrenees to French Alps at 443 Km.