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TIL GPS satellites go so fast, that they need to adjust their location calculations to account for Relativity

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roEd TIL that a DNA study shows that the entire indigenous population in the New World before 1492 might have been descendants of only 70 people who crossed the Beringia before the Ice Age ended
56Jp TIL British Matinee Idol Dirk Bogarde was painting in France when he realised the field in which he had set up was littered with children’s skulls. They turned out to have died in a WW2 bombing raid he himself had ordered years earlier.
xVX4k TIL that plastic fibers have been found in tap water around the world, with the US at the worst rate (94%), and both the exact sources and the health consequences are yet unknown.
8evGa TIL that Alfred E. Neuman was an unnamed stock character in advertisements and political art dating as far back as 1894 before he was named and adopted as the mascot for Mad Magazine in 1956.
awJXJ TIL Disney's "Enchanted" film was originally written as a R-rated comedy princess movie with borrowed elements from "American Pie" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" that focused heavily on sex and profanity