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TIL The country of Chile is so long that it would stretch from the northernmost point of Norway all the way south to Morocco

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rNO7W Today I learned about Bazoul in Burkina Faso, where crocodiles are revered and played with by local children
wojZ1 TIL the word Covid-19 appeared in the dictionary a record 34 days after coinage. Before that, the fastest was AIDS, which took two years.
8eek8 TIL The British and American versions of Dennis the Menace were created independently and released on the same day in March 1951
vgZD TIL that in 1993, an Army husband cut off his wifes lovers head, dropped in her lap while she was in the hospital pregnant and said “"Look Diane, Glover’s here. He’ll sleep with you every night, only you won’t sleep at night”
l7PZB TIL: There are two cemeteries surrounded by runways at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, GA