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TIL the Dutch town of Spijkenisse has a ‘silly walks’ pedestrian crossing in honor of the Monty Python sketch.

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9av6 TIL Russia has to bomb their rivers every winter to prevent dangerous flooding caused by ice dams.
LkXW9 TIL, once a jockey died half way around the track in a race, but his horse finished first making him the first man ever to win a horse race while dead.
1WO TIL 5.93million YEARS of game play have been clocked in WoW
YpL5P TIL of Mae C. Jemison. Not only is she the first African-American woman to go to space; she also served in the Peace Corps, appeared on Star Trek, is a dancer, and holds nine honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters and the humanities
x6Ar1 TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.