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TIL that the town of Boring, Oregon has ‘paired up’ with the town of Dull, Scotland to promote tourism in both places.

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vgvR TIL that the rivalry between the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul was so intense that at one point they resorted to kidnapping each others census workers so that one city would not outgrow the other
v1GZD TIL Pope Stephen VI put the corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus on trial for illegally serving as a Bishop, seven months after his death. Finding the corpse guilty, they cut off three of his fingers, stripped his body of its Papal Vestments, and threw his corpse into the Tiber River. (Year 897)
16VkW TIL None of the native species of bee in Australia are true honey bees. Social species of native bees do produce honey, but not much, as they are relatively primitive bee species. And the bees that do produce honey store it in small resinous pots which look like bunches of grapes
Z8OXB TIL that the growth of the world population in 2021 is the lowest we've yet to record, growing half as fast as 50 years ago and continuing a trend of declining.
gM9GX TIL that the phenomenon of "Rickrolling" became so popular that that on 1 April 2008, YouTube pranked its users by making every single featured video on its front page a rickroll.