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TIL Russia and Pakistan are connected by the longest ocean going straight line in the world. You can travel the 20,000 mile journey without turning.

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v1nPL TIL that origami as we know it today was due to Akira Yoshizawa who, in his own estimation created more than 50,000 models of which only a few hundred were presented as diagrams in his 18 books; he lived in poverty from 1937 until 1954, when he published his first monograph and got his first exhibit
jpda TIL that Yoshi’s full name is T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas, and that Mario’s genus is “homo nintendonus”
dDK1j TIL When Ashlee Simpson got caught lip-syncing on SNL, she did an impromptu hoedown
e0kmL TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.
NDMQ TIL that in 2010, a woman named Lori Ruff committed suicide. Her husband’s family found a box among her possessions that contained name change documents and the birth certificate of a long-dead two-year-old girl. However, the true identity of Lori Ruff has now been discovered!