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TIL that by 2050, the Northwest Passage—once an impossible Arctic route—will become the most valuable shipping lane on Earth, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific through Canada and Greenland.

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x6A7w TIL the 85-year-old Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal study in history, found that people who did more chores during childhood often had more professional success and happiness later in life.
J1DeB TIL about Phantom Settlements, fake/non-existent towns placed on maps to spot plagiarism
P1Zpn TIL when Anthony Quinn was filming The Guns of Navarone he was so taken by the location shooting of Rhodes, an island in Greece, that he bought property there and there is an area still called Anthony Quinn Bay.
LGA9 TIL Louisiana State Penitentiary was founded as a slave plantation, and is still run as a prison farm to this day
1P4d TIL it was illegal for black people to move to Oregon until 1926.