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TIL Chile has such a long coast, in part, because they won all of Bolivia's coast and some of Peru's coast in a late-1800s war. This is still a sensitive issue between Chile and Bolivia today.

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4ky66 TIL when Tom and Jerry's "The Two Mouseketeers" (1952) featured a guillotine execution scene, it wasn't just historical fiction - France was still actively using the guillotine for executions until 1977, with the last execution being Hamida Djandoubi.
wLy4Y TIL of the Crichton Leprechaun, a supposed sighting of a leprechaun in a tree in Crichton, a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama
OokW1 TIL "Pulling out all the stops" comes from organ-playing meaning "bring into play every rank of pipes"
1ag4X TIL of Huang Yijun, a 92-year-old woman who delivered a 60-year-old "stone baby" (calcified fetus) in 2009
Ja5V TIL 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.