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TIL that turtles aren't in their shells, they are their shells.

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MelaB TIL when Japan's first railway was introduced, the USA, France, and the UK bid to build the system, with the UK winning. The railways they set up were left-side running, and that was later adopted by Japanese cars. Today, Japan is one of the only non-Commonwealth countries with left-side driving
Dm9Y TIL In WW2, US codebreakers could not decipher the Japanese code “AF” but suspected it was Midway, so the base there sent an uncoded message about a water supply problem. The US then caught a Japanese message that AF had water problems, allowing the US pacific fleet to immediately prepare for battle
BgLRe TIL the Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle are the points in which there is at least one day of 24 hours sun and one night of 24 hours of no sun.
nWDoW TIL in the Lion King that when Rafiki says to Simba 'You are a baboon, and I am not' he is correct: he is in fact a Mandrill and not a baboon.
jNEXX TIL: that adjectives, in the English language, are meant to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. "A lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife."