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TIL every century, the moon and the sun's gravity add 1.7 milliseconds to the length of a day. When dinosaurs where alive, they had 23-hour days.

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NXvJb TIL: In May 2023, an American man accidentally drove into Canada with 181 kilograms of cannabis and over $600,000 in cash after entering the wrong GPS coordinates. This mistake led to his immediate arrest by Canadian authorities​ at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing in Niagara Falls.
0wdwj TIL In the skies over Germany in WWII, a badly damaged American B-17 was escorted out of enemy airspace by a German fighter ace who could've easily shot them down. Years later after the war, Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler reunited and became lifelong friends.
OL7e TIL Enzo Ferrari told a man that “You may be able to drive a tractor, but you will never be able to handle a Ferrari properly.” The man was so pissed, he vowed to create the perfect car, his name, Ferruccio Lamborghini
d798 TIL of a British soldier who fought in both world wars, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a POW camp, bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them, and said of WWI, “Frankly, I had enjoyed the War.”
o7MY TIL, in 1962 under Centralia PA,one of the largest mines in the US caught fire. The fire formed sinkholes and vented lethal amounts of carbon monoxide forcing the evacuation of residents.Today the town remains abandoned while the fire continues to burn and is expected to do so for another 250 years!