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TIL flat earth conspiracy theorists believe a conspiracy theory that the Flat Earth Society is a government controlled body to disprove flat earthers

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MvO0 TIL of Belphegor’s prime. A 31-digit, palindromic prime number named after the prince of Hell responsible for ingenious inventions: 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001.
awk5o TIL that Houston is the only major US city without single-use zoning. Retail, office enterprises, and homes are free to mix as the market demands.
ZkGG TIL it is common in china for drivers who have accidentally hit pedestrians to drive over them again to kill them, because they pay less restitution that way.
4XkAR TIL that fingers don't wrinkle because of water absorption, but because of an autonomic reflex action controlled by nerves
6E6Z8 TIL honey bees aren't native to North America. When they arrived from Europe they spread out faster than the colonists, and Native Americans considered the appearance of the "white man's fly" to indicate the approach of European settlers