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TIL There is a glacier in Montana that is named after the tens of millions of now extinct grasshoppers that can be found trapped within the ice.

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5VBGD TIL the medical term for a unibrow is "Synophrys", and can be a symptom of several genetic disorders ranging from learning difficulty (moderate to severe), to having fewer fingers or toes than normal, malformed limbs and facial anomalies.
9wkNQ TIL about the "Book of Negroes", an official record of 3,000 Black Loyalists, mostly former slaves, evacuated to Nova Scotia (and freedom) after the American Revolutionary War
KOd96 TIL a child, Bobby Dunbar, disappeared at age 4, then was "found" in another state with different parents. Investigators took the child, returning him to the Dunbars. Years later, DNA revealed it was the wrong kid.
W7rAd TIL that in 2014, the comedian Tracy Morgan was involved in a car collision with a Walmart trailer, killing his accompanying friend, and leaving Morgan with a broken femur and nose, brain injury, and broken ribs. He sued Walmart for negligence, and the company settled the lawsuit for $90 million.
M7OBm TIL that actor Sir Michael Caine chose his acting pseudonym whilst standing in a phonebox in Leicester Square and spotting a nearby and for the 1954 movie "The Caine Mutiny".