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TIL that an optical illusion occasionally makes the city of Chicago appear upside down.

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N75m6 TIL after successfully winning the online poll to name the ISS module 'Colbert' after Stephen Colbert, NASA went with the eighth most popular name 'Tranquility'. To honor his winning, they named the new station treadmill Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).
x64Xb TIL that Moana is called Vaiana in France due to a perfume brand with the same name. I also learned that she's called Oceania in Italy because of an adult actress called Moana
M7D0a TIL the most common World Series matchup not involving the New York Yankees is the Athletics and the Giants, who have met 4 times. Despite both currently playing in the San Francisco Bay area, three of those matchups were from when they played in Philadelphia and New York.
pwRp TIL, finally, that the name Bastian screams for the Empress at the end of The Neverending Story film is “Moonchild”…
D1roP TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!