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TIL there is a Post Office at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

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jN9xE TIL that the female spotted hyena has the largest clitoris of all the mammals, which is referred to as a 'pseudo-penis'.
QJXNe TIL Disney changed the name of their project "Basil of Baker Street" to The Great Mouse Detective", causing Disney animators to pass around a joke memo blandly renaming old Disney classics. It reached the CEO of Disney, who was furious and demanded to know who wrote the memo. No one squealed.
D78j TIL Nikola Tesla had no interest in women because he thought that modern women have evolved new “undesirable” habits that made them lose their feminine behavior and over-compete with men.
JYGWB TIL Before clocks were commonplace, the terms "sunwise" and "deasil" from the Latin root "dexter" ("right") were used for clockwise. "Widdershins" (from Middle Low German "weddersinnes", "opposite course") was used for counterclockwise
RjZ4 TIL In 1960 a terrorist armed with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires from the bomb saving all 49 passengers.