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TIL Vladivostok (Russia) is geographically closer to Darwin, Australia, than it is to the nation's capital of Moscow.

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rRPOW TIL As gifts for the US Bicentennial in 1976, France showed famous works in US Museums, Britain gifted a golden, jewel-encrusted replica of the Magna Carta, Norway built a Sports Center, Japan built a huge theatre and donated 50 Bonsai Trees. Spain gave two statues. Canada gave them a scrapbook.
bERp TIL some Spartans were expected to have male lovers, but purely physical relationships between males was condemned by the state. Instead the older lover was expected to act as the guardian and guide during the younger lover’s military training.
4kXmR TIL in 1991 As a Captain HR McMaster lead a legendary tank battle in Iraq that destroyed a much larger Iraqi tank force. He defeated 28 Iraqi Republican Guard tanks in 23 minutes with no loses. This earned him a Silver Star for valor.
XDEj TIL that the Apollo 17 ‘Blue Marble’ photograph originally had the south pole at the top, and was inverted to conform to the traditional view of 'north’ being 'up’.
78nB7 TIL in September 2012, 88 year-old Ilda Vitor Maciel was killed in a Rio de Janeiro clinic after nurses injected her IV with soup; a month later, 80 year-old Palmerina Pires Ribeiro was killed in Rio de Janeiro when a nurse injected her IV with coffee. The cases are unrelated.