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TIL that Casanova, the famous womanizer, wrote a five-volume story about an underground world inhabited by dwarves

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Q9DE TIL there are approximately 5 million alligators in the U.S.
GAyV4 TIL that there are 3 territories today claimed to be Terra nullius (’No man’s land’): Bir Tawil (a strip of land between Egypt and Sudan), four pockets of land near the Danube due to the Croatia–Serbia border dispute, and parts of Antarctica.
7DaO TIL that helium was discovered in the Sun before it was discovered on Earth. It was named after the Greek Sun god, Helios.
e05yk TIL In 1971, after LANSA flight 508 was struck by lightening above Peru, 17 year old Juliane Koepcke fell from the sky for two miles but survived. Despite extensive wounds, she walked for 11 days in the rainforest before finding a group of fishermen who helped transport her to a hospital.
7jNO TIL of the Quetzalcoatlus, named after the mesoamerican snake god, and the largest flying animal of all time standing as tall as a fully grown giraffe that could fly across continents entire continents