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TIL The fear of heights is not vertigo. It is, in fact, Acrophobia.

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9YQZm TIL that the word "meme" was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads.
v1P68 TIL Target Canada closed down all 133 retail locations and laid off 17,600 employees after less than two years
ADOjl TIL that Russia and the US are only 2.4 mi (3.9 km) apart due to the positioning of the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait. Diomede (US) and Big Diomede (Russia) are in view of each other, and in winter it’s technically possible to walk across the ice from US to Russia.
v1XV4 TIL that on April Fools’ Day, 1974, prankster Oliver Bickar fooled the town of Sitka, Alaska into thinking that the nearby Mount Edgecumbe was erupting by igniting hundreds of old tires inside the crater
NYJN TIL in 2007 hundreds of people gathered at the coordinate from xkcd episode 240 - story of a man who met a girl in dream that ended with him saying ‘wanting something doesn’t make it real’. When the time was up author Randall Munroe appeared and said “Maybe wanting something does make it real.”