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TIL about the Darién Gap, the Panama/Colombia border where no paved roads are built. This gap of densely packed marshland bisects the Pan-American Highway, cutting South and North American off from having a contiguous highway route across the two continents.

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6ELyw TIL that China has restricted the use of geographic systems to only specific authorized entities, causing crowdsourced mapping efforts such as OpenStreetMap to be unlawful. They use a specific coordinate system known as GCJ-02, that intentionally offset places from their true location.
e0VW4 TIL Phil Spector repeatedly pointed loaded guns at Leonard Cohen while producing one of his albums. At one point Spector shoved a revolver into his neck while holding a bottle of kosher red wine and said, ‘Leonard, I love you.’ Leonard Cohen responded by saying ‘I hope you do, Phil.'
nk47 TIL a Hungarian man was shot in the frontal lobe during World War 1, making it impossible for him to fall asleep. He continued to live a full, sleepless life.
dDyNE TIL that Rudolf Nureyev's grave in a Paris cemetery is draped with a beautiful, realistic mosaic of an oriental Kilim rug, in order to reflect the ballet dancer's life-long love of textiles and antiques.
5YplB TIL that in 1945 six Americans, five of which were children, were killed in Oregon by a Japanese bomb that was delivered via balloon. They were the only citizens to die by enemy weapon on the American mainland during World War II.