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TIL the Appalachian mountains in N America and the mountains of Greenland, Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia are all one chain

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kOX1e TIL West Indies got its name in 1492 because of a confusion. Christopher Columbus sailed west to find India but he landed in the Bahamas and mistook it for India.
aMpZ TIL Jehovah’s Witnesses have falsely predicted the end of the world 20 times.
X0Ar6 TIL that all sperm whales in the world descended from just one female who lived tens of thousands of years ago
9Y4mD TIL there was once an appetite suppressing candy called Ayds, in the late 1980's due to public awareness of the aids crisis, similarities in name and the fact both could cause weight loss, sales plummeted by as much as 50%. Resulting in the eventual discontinuation of the brand.
X0a9R TIL that most of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are from the Cretaceous period.