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TIL the NEW River in West Virginia is the fourth oldest river in the world

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wRQ6 TIL humans hadn’t detected any planets outside of our solar system until 1991, just 26 years ago. Before then, we had no evidence that planets existed around any other star in the universe.
767r TIL Dermot Morgan, the star of Father Ted, died the day after filming the last episode of the show.
oeVK TIL a WW1 homing pigeon saved 194 men by continuing her flight after losing a leg, an eye and having been shot through the chest
QN4ek TIL Until 1921 the Colorado River did not flow through the State of Colorado. It took an act of Congress to “move” the river into the state by renaming the Grand River and adding it to the Colorado River.
YpgZW TIL a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia because it tells kids that “spiders can’t hurt you”