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TIL Antillia doesn't exists but Antilles are the caribean islands

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dNyZ TIL Blondie was the first artist to reach no 1 in the US with a song that featured rap
oR7QE TIL Mott’s (the apple juice company) makes Clamato and keeps their branding off of the actual bottles entirely, while they themselves are owned by Dr. Pepper, so essentially Clamato is a Dr. Pepper product
VxLZ TIL The sculptor of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Gutzon Borglum, planned to make a secret room behind the hairline of Abraham Lincoln which was supposed to be a doorway to a chamber originally intended to hold some of America’s most treasured documents but was left unfinished due to his death.
p8k0Q TIL that the different designations for groups of birds (Parliament of Owls, Murder of Crows...) largely came from a book from Middle Ages called The Book of Saint Albania. The designations are largely unused by scientist and birdwatchers, but are meant to describe the birds’ characters.
Zpa1v TIL that domestic dogs have developed muscles in there brow to "mimic" humans