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TIL West Virginia has a landlocked lighthouse

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KYwl4 TIL: The World Meteorological Organization, which names storms in alphabetical order, will reuse names every 6 years, unless a storm is exceptionally damaging or deadly.
eLjk TIL the Brazilian football player Sócrates, was a doctor of medicine, a degree he earned concurrently playing professional football. He was also noted for being an intellectual, a heavy drinker and a smoker.
b6ZgN TIL that alligators can't die of old age. The only way they die is by running out of available food consumption or by being killed by humans. They live an average of 30-50 years old.
OGKbX TIL emojis and emoticons are not interchangeable words. Emoticans are made with characters - like :), :(, B-), O_O, while emojis are pictographs (literally meaning "picture character" in Japanese) - like the roughly corresponding 🙂, 😔, 😎, 😳
VMPPp TIL - On a clear night humans can see the light from a candle burning 1.6 miles away