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TIL the city of Sodo in Ethiopia only gets up to 57F (14C) average temperatures in the summer despite being near the equator because of its location in the Ethiopian Highlands. The city's highest point is roughly 1700 ft higher than Denver.

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yVY0v TIL the British submarine HMS Poseidon sank in 1931 after a collision with a Chinese steamship; 21 crew died in the incident. In 1972, the sub was secretly salvaged by China which wasn't known about in the West until a journalist discovered its description in a 2002 Chinese magazine article.
XEMvE TIL “Eye Of The Tiger” was created to be the theme for Rocky III because Queen wouldn’t give Sylvester Stallone the rights to use “Another One Bites The Dust”
nyOr TIL that an Australian dog named “Bob the Railway Dog” would jump from train to train, even whilst they were both moving, and traveled as he wished using the South Australian Railways.
mXey TIL Today is the 97th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Three German divisions held the ridge and after multiple American and British attempts to take the ridge, Canada captured it. It is widely regarded as the “birth” of Canada as a independent country.
5VKr TIL that Neptune was predicted to exist by mathematical calculations well before it was physically observed by telescopes