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TIL Arctic is not continent, but just region, because it's basically ice floating on water, not landmass like Antarctic

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VMWJG TIL in 1672 the Dutch Prime Minister & his Brother were killed and partially eaten by an angry mob
XE0jP TIL since it's emergence as a potato pest in 1840, the Colorado potato beetle has developed resistance to all classes of insecticides, 56 chemicals in total
xAaD TIL the current Earl of Sandwich owns and founded a chain of 24 sandwich shops, the first of which opened in Walt Disney World
oB0OA TIL Luxembourg has a divorce rate of 89%, with roughly 2140 marriages and 1900 divorces in the year 2019.
16JJ7 TIL about Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, who falsely believed, along with his followers, that a spacecraft was located behind the Hale-Bopp Comet when it passed by Earth in 1997.