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TIL of The Niagara Escarpment. The escarpment is the cliff over which the Niagara River plunges at Niagara Falls, for which it is named.

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LpgZ TIL: An ancient planet in our solar system had its outer crust blasted away by asteroid impacts. All that remained was a solid metal core which still orbits the sun today. Scientists now propose sending a probe to this “metal world” to learn more about how our own planet formed.
woxJW TIL the moon's orbit around the sun is almost a perfect circle instead of a spiral. In order for it to become a spiral, it would have to orbit around earth 30x faster.
j4dj TIL Ulysses S. Grant was pulled over for riding his horse and buggy too quickly. Realizing it was the president the officer apologized and offered to ignore the infraction, but Grant replied “I was speeding, you caught me and I’ll pay the ticket.” He was fined $5, which would have been $91 today.
yVjjM TIL American writer Cormac McCarthy wrote 10 books and an estimated 5 million words on a 1963 Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter. It sold at auction in 2009 for $254,500. The next day McCarthy received the same model from a friend as a replacement that cost $20.
AXpd TIL “Saving Private Ryan” made more money overseas than in the US – and was more popular in Germany than in France