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TIL that the French Government successfully infiltrated Greenpeace and sunk the Rainbow Warrior, killing one man

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4XWK5 TIL that in languages that read from left to right, the left hand page and the right hand page have names- Verso and Recto, respectively.
8e4rV TIL that in 1929, an earthquake off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada caused an undersea landslide that displaced 48 cubic miles of the grand banks. This resulted in a 43' tsunami that killed 27 in coastal Newfoundland, and was recorded as far as Lagos, Portgual
e00Bg TIL the metropolitan population of Tokyo is 38 million, almost the same as the entire state of California, and 50% more than the whole state of Texas.
ADjva TIL That in the title of the standard work of neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System does not refer to organ, but instead its author, neurologist Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain.
b9PrQ TIL that the ridge going down my scrotum is due to the fact that I used to have a vagina. Apparently men initially develop as girls and once the body decides it's a dude, the labia fuses together into a ball sack and the clitoris becomes the tip of the penis, thus forever changing how I view my junk