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TIL that Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system

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OoKBY TIL that St Patrick, as well as being Patron St of Ireland, is also Patron St of Nigeria! And their Guinness is almost twice as potent.
4XLR6 TIL: Iowa has a law that prevents new roads from being constructed diagonally. They want every road to be in a cardinal direction.
X6rr TIL the word Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’
XE1x8 TIL that oranges are hybrids of mandarins and pomelos. In fact, most cultivated citrus fruits are the products of hybridization between mandarins, pomelos, and citrons.
OojO6 TIL: Michael Collins had a bone spur on his spine that was removed. Yet he still managed to be part of the Apollo 11 mission that put the first humans on the moon.