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TIL there is a 3,000 mile biking/hiking trail under construction that will connect Canada to the Florida Keys.

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gM5mD Today I learned "Good Times" is a spin-off of a spin-off. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, itself a spin-off of All in the Family.
4PQg TIL that retinal, a photorector molecule in your eye, has to leave the eye and be recycled through the liver once it has been exposed to light.
BrVLr TIL of the term "paraprosdokian" - a figure of speech in which the latter part of a phrase is surprising in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example would be Mitch Hedberg's famous one-liner "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."
yQD1w TIL that Whose Line is it Anyway? originated as a radio show with Stephen Fry as one of the regulars
pdEO TIL: In September 1940, four boys and a dog set out on an adventure in Dordogne, France.When the boys decided to explore the hole, they slid into a deep underground chamber where they discovered the most famous cave paintings in the world- the Lascaux Cave Paintings.