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TIL that no place in the continental US has an antipodal point on land. Dig a hole straight through to the other side of the Earth and you will come up in the Southern Indian Ocean. Only the very northern tip of Alaska and the state of Hawaii do; dig from Honolulu and you will surface in Botswana.

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78y8r TIL that the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois are at the largest pre-Colombian city in North America. At it's peak in 1100 CE, the city covered 6 square miles and housed upwards of 15,000 inhabitants. Indigenous people today, including the Cherokee and Choctaw, continue these mound-building traditions.
QGde TIL that prostitutes used to wear vaginal wigs called Merkins to hide their shaved vaginas… And their syphilis symptoms. (Nsfw)
dlyB TIL Harry Truman was once a member of the KKK
waZ8 TIL in 1977 a urologist in New Jersey purchased Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis for $3,000 and stored it under his bed for 30 years until he died. His daughter inherited the penis.
160g7 TIL the 11-pointed foundation of the Statue of Liberty is actually a coastal defense fort (Fort Wood) that predates the rest of the pedestal by 73 years.