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TIL it's impossible to drive from North to South America because there are no roads between Panama and Colombia

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YpELr TIL that Dinosaurs were already heading for extinction before the asteroid strike that sealed their fate.
8ZrX TIL farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows bottoms to stop lions from attacking them.
loMv7 TIL, although it sounds incredible that people have survived falls from aircraft as high as 20 000 feet, the extreme height makes little difference as anything above 10 or 12 stories and you've reached terminal velocity. So a fall from 20,000 is no different from a 500 foot fall."
wLMa1 TIL it used to be tradition for newly emaciated African Americans to parade in armed militias for the 4th of July
d8wPK TIL of John Burns, a resident of Gettysburg PA who at 70 years old in 1863 insisted on joining the Union line with his outdated flintlock rifle, shot a Confederate officer from his horse, fought w the Iron Brigade, was wounded several times, duped Confederate doctors into mending him, and snuck home