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TIL that Rudyard, Montana is the only town in the contiguous United States in which you could dig a hole through the center of the earth and emerge from the other side on dry land.

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JYbl1 TIL that Stalin’s granddaughter is a punk hippie Buddhist who runs an antique shop in Portland
5YWlR TIL had it not been for the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English we speak today would have been much different and more restrictive. The merging of Old English and Norman French led to Modern English being sort of hybrid of the two, giving another shade of meaning to words such as "swine" vs "pork".
x60w TIL Pablo Picasso was going to brothels by the age of 13.
kOkRE TIL of the Fermi Paradox: There's a high possibility that intelligent alien life exists but no actual evidence of it.
699vQ TIL: The Post-World War II hyperinflation of Hungary held the record for the most extreme monthly inflation rate ever – 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 1016%; 41,900,000,000,000,000%) for July 1946, amounting to prices doubling every 15.3 hours.