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TIL that the devastating Typhoon Ida struck Hiroshima just one month after the nuclear bomb, killing a further two thousand people

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l78x1 TIL that Null Island located at 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian and equator meet. Null Island is 600 miles off the coast of West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea in international seas. The spot is marked with the permanently-moored Soul buoy.
m1RlP TIL that there is a Town in Minnesota called Little Canada and the Canadian Flag is even displayed in council chambers.
9w8xm TiL Guinness Book of Records was invented to settle bar arguments.
wLEk8 TIL in 2004 215 restaurants in the Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after being charged with lacing their food with opium to make customers addicted. In 2016, 35 restaurants in the entire country were found doing the same thing.
X0Z5k TIL the Tuberous Bush Cricket has the largest testicles to body mass ratio in the animal kingdom. To put this into perspective, the weight average for men in the US is roughly 197.6 pounds. 14% of that would be almost 27 pounds.