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TIL that it’s impossible to drive from North to South America. A 54-mile wide area of nearly-impassable land called the Darién Gap breaks the Pan-American Highway in Panama.

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b6n80 TIL of Dr Jack Matthews who was not only a doctor, a top level rugby player and a glider pilot during WW2, but he also fought Rocky Marciano to a draw in amateur boxing.
8eGla TIL American Falls of Niagara Falls ran dry for several months in 1969 so engineers could inspect and fortify it to prevent/reduce erosion.
5bwD TIL in 2011, PETA mocked a 21 year old man who was attacked by a shark while he was spearfishing, calling the attack ‘payback.’
E1kMX TIL Until the late 19th century, most men in Japan wore pocketless kimonos, which offered no place to keep belongings. Netsuke (small carved statues, working as anchors)(meaning “to attach the root”) allowed them to securely fasten hanging pouches (sagemono) and boxes (inro) to a kimono sash (obi).
j7AX TIL that at the Nuremburg trials, several Nazi leaders achieved genius-level scores on an IQ test