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TIL in 50,000 years' time, Niagara Falls will have eroded the remaining 32km to Lake Erie, and will therefore cease to exist.

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worlY TIL despite being known as the highest honor of the U.S. military, the Medal of Honor has also been awarded to foreign soldiers. Following WW1, congress passed a law awarding the honor to the unknown soldiers of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Romania.
m1ZZv TIL that when the Bible was first translated into Finnish, there was no word for lion since nobody had ever seen one. The translator instead used the word “jalopeura” which means “noble deer”
9wWMM TIL: Playboy Magazine’s name was inspired by a car company
EgBNW TIL Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep while they are dreaming.
yQVRl TIL During Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship sedated political prisoners were thrown – still alive – from military planes into the freezing waters of the South Atlantic.