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TIL Florida is the only place on earth where crocodiles and alligators coexist

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aO5J TIL KitKats are considered to be good luck in Japan because the Japanese reading of “KitKat”, “kitto katto”, sounds similar to “kitto katsu”, a phrase which translates to “surely win”
yVAoJ TIL of the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia. It is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020
6E8Vl TIL that in the Antebellum South, slaves dreaded January 1 -- A.K.A. "Heartbreak Day" -- because New Year's Day was traditionally when debts were settled, resulting in black families being torn apart as slave owners sold or rented slaves out long-term to pay back those they owed money to.
yV0Ew TIL about Chang Dai-chien, one of China’s greatest 20th-century artists. A master who exhibited at the Louvre, kept a pet gibbon, and exchanged paintings with Picasso, he was also a genius forger whose indistinguishable fakes of earlier masters fooled the world’s top museums and earned him millions.
YnyP TIL that a 13 year old was traded to U.S. forces for $10 and then held at Guantanamo Bay for over a year.