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TIL that the largest natural bridge on Earth was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, until it was observed on Google Earth.

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9YDvB TIL the game developer HAL Laboratory got its name because "each letter put them one step ahead of IBM"
QRGe TIL that if pigs are not castrated the meat will have an unpleasant odor when cooked; referred to as “Boar Taint.”
xlEo TIL the child’s movie Tangled had a larger budget than Avatar and nearly every other movie ever
0w6rA TIL Katrin Himmler, the grandniece of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, was once asked if she would abstain from having children to "end the Nazi bloodline." Her response was no, explaining that the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is literal Nazi ideology.
1aRVP TIL that the extinct Carolina parakeet may have become poisonous from eating toxic seeds, because cats were noted to die after eating the birds