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TIL Canada's Mount Peck was known as Mount Stalin from 1944 until 198. I haven't discovered why it took until then to change it, though...

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eplbn TIL Conan O'Brien has History and Literature Degrees from Harvard.
oe9R TIL The Queen of England is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth’s surface
D1P5g TIL 52 days before his death Elvis Presley while stopped at a red light saw two men beating a teenager lying on the ground and quickly got out of his car and into a karate pose and said "I'll take you two on" The fight stopped instantly and the stunned men shook his hand.
D1rRr TIL in 2017, Apple announced plans to demolish a historic Aboriginal art gallery to make way for one of their stores in Melbourne. After intense backlash from Australians, authorities rejected the plan.
6nw7 TIL that wild pigs throughout the Americas descend from pigs brought over on ships by the first Spanish explorers.