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TIL the country of Andorra has no airports or train stations.

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0do7v TIL the line where tourists take photos at the Royal Observatory Greenwich marks the historic Prime Meridian. Since 1988 the current standard prime meridian is 102.5m off the original line, hence if you look at your GPS on your phone at the historic line it won't show exactly zero degrees longitude
grAMy TIl that Wales was only recognized as legally separate from England in 1967 and before was legally a province of England.
RMj7 TIL Alabama voters, in 2000, repealed the law that banned interracial marriage, which the US Supreme Court had already ruled unconstitutional 33 years earlier in Loving vs. Virginia. Despite the law already being unconstitutional, 41% of Alabama voters still voted against the repeal.
L1n9 TIL that a Nat Geo photographer was “adopted” by a leopard seal in Antarctica that tried to teach him how hunt penguins. When he didn’t catch on, she tried to feed him.
Oy8e TIL, the screenwriter for the movie “Cast Away” stranded himself on an island for research, and when a volleyball washed up on shore, it became the inspiration for “Wilson.”