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TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around.

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PD9V TIL that in 1911 a lone man emerged from the wilderness in California, the last member of his tribe and also “the last wild Indian”. With the help of university professors he was able to preserve parts of his language and culture.
MRWK TIL 85% of fat people who met and married their spouse while Fat and later had Bariatric surgery, divorce their Spouse within 2 years of surgery
EOEp TIL Pangea, the supercontinent that broke apart 200 million years ago to create the continents we have today was at least the 5th supercontinent in Earth’s cyclical history of supercontinents forming and breaking up.
6oKZ TIL that, when played together, the McBain clips from The Simpsons form a coherent mini-movie.
X07B6 TIL A French mail carrier named Ferdinand Cheval spent 33 years building a castle (“Le Palais idéal”) out of stones he found on his mail routes.