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TIL that the State of Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake.

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KOvM4 TIL A "Wellerism" is an expression that comedically uses a saying in the wrong situation, such as "We'll have to rehearse that, said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car." or "So I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."
vPNKx TIL During the course of the Roman civil wars, the Athenians sided with Pompey against Julius Caesar, Brutus & Cassius against Octavian and Mark Antony against Octavian, all losing sides
GYjR7 Today I Learned that Hebrew was once an extinct language and remains as the only successfully revived language.
P0KO TIL that the word “Aibohphobia”, meaning “fear of palindromes”, is a joke word deliberately constructed to be one.
mEKx TIL according to BP at today’s production levels there are 53.3 years’ worth of oil left in the earth.