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TIL Flights Between San Fransisco and Dubai Travel Over the North Pole (an 8,100-mile flight).

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N7pl6 TIL that in 1828, a painter named Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature portrait of her own breasts and sent it to a man in what is probably one of the earliest cases of someone sending nudes.
78Jgb TIL - In 1980, Libya overtook the United States in GDP per capita. This was the only time in history that an African country had ever done so.
xZ80 TIL The blinking light atop the Capital Records Building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956.
mxYXv TIL That during the Attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese pilot crash-landed on the island of Ni'ihau and with the help of Japanese-speaking residents he terrorized the island before being killed.
v1yLB TIL that some frog species are freeze-tolerant: they will freeze in the winter to the point that their heart stops, and thaw and repair once temperatures go up.