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TIL that Princess Diana and Winston Churchill are from the same family

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wLom7 TIL that ginger ale is a popular drink when flying because of ideas about ginger's soothing effect on stomachs, despite the fact that most ginger ale sold on airplanes contains little to no real ginger.
9pm7 TIL The only upside-down stoplight in the world is in Syracuse, NY because some persistent local Irish kids didn’t want the red (British) above green (Ireland).
nWEpr TIL, from March to July in 2018, an arctic fox was tracked walking 4,350 km across the sea ice from Norway to Greenway to Canada averaging 47 km per day, eventually settling on Ellesmere Island. It provided evidence on how arctic species remain connected even when scattered across islands.
yQ8VV TIL that in 2015, Colorado officials had to replace the 420 mile marker on I-70 with a 419.99 marker in order to stop thefts.
4kRAw TIL that there were five cases of bonobos in groups hunting monkeys in Salonga National Park. In three of these, the bonobos ended up eating baby monkeys.