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TIL there is no land under the north pole, only under the south pole

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16JJ7 TIL about Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, who falsely believed, along with his followers, that a spacecraft was located behind the Hale-Bopp Comet when it passed by Earth in 1997.
ANWy7 TIL in the 1980's American Airlines realized most people were not eating the olive from the salad. Cutting one olive from salad saved them $40,000 a year
yRYV TIL that Ken Osmond, Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver, became a police officer for the LAPD and was shot three times while on a foot chase with a car thief. He was placed on disability and later retired after 18 years on the force.
R7jD4 TIL in the midnight of Dec 29, 2011 Samoa loses a day and jumps forward in time to Dec. 31, 2011 without experiencing Dec 30 as they move westward of international dateline. The switch was made to improve ties with major trade partners in Australia and New Zealand.
1N7O TIL: The Vietnamese are the biggest consumers of the rhino horn and they received the idea that rhino horn was an aphrodisiac from the western media’s false reporting. There is no known record of its use as an aphrodisiac in Traditional Chinese Medicine.