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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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YpXv7 TIL terminal patients may exhibit a burst of energy and lucidity near death, it is known as Terminal Lucidity.
eayD TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once gave a speech immediately after an attempted assassination. He started the speech by saying “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
loXPV TIL: The US Army spent $5 billion on pixellated uniforms that did not provide adequate camouflage in any environment whatsoever.
0wW1v TIL that in the early 20th century, patients with syphilis were successfully treated by being transfused with infected blood from people with malaria. The researcher was given the 1929 Nobel Prize for his discovery.
ReXj TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons