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TIL Disney World Resort Orlando Florida, with an area of 110km2 (43 square miles) is bigger than Paris 105km2 (41 square miles) and almost double the size of Manhattan 59km2 (23 square miles)

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gdn8 TIL NYC was buried beneath 13km of mountain, and that pressure created extremely strong bedrock which allows for such tall skyscrapers.
Y7OpA TIL about "Operation Cat Drop" in 1959, where the British Royal Air Force airdropped cats into Borneo to control a rat infestation.
W71od TIL of Leonard Lake, a serial killer who had abducted, abused, and murdered at least eleven people in the 1980s. He was caught after accidentally giving police the ID of Robin Stapley, one of Lake's victims, attempting to pass it off as his own.
E1BMw TIL Gold can grow on Eucalyptus trees. In its search for water, the Eucalyptus tree absorbs gold particles dissolved in the water deep underground, then storing the gold in the leaves of the tree. This is a cheap and effective way to discover new gold deposits in Australia.
R7NW1 TIL That during a football match in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lightning struck and killed all eleven members of one team while their opponents went unscathed, fuelling intense rumors of witchcraft