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TIL that the islands of the Pacific nation of Kiribati extend 3900 km from east to west - further than the distance from Los Angeles to Miami, London to Cairo, Dubai to Moscow, or Bangkok to Seoul

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GARo1 TIL Vladimir Pravik was one of the first firefighters to reach the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26th, 1986. The radiation was so strong that it changed his eye color from brown to blue. He died 15 days later.
0w1Zv TIL that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hung in Great Britain, being sentenced to the gallows in 1955 for the murder of her lover after becoming embittered by his cheating ways
E1dno TIL Men did not use to wear wristwatches because they were seen as feminine. It was only after World War 1 when men started wearing wristwatches because they were proven useful in the war.
XEWJ6 TIL A turkey is called a Hindi in Turkey because of everyone being confused as to where this bird came from in the days of the New World
w18W TIL That it was illegal for the British monarch to be Catholic, or even married to a Catholic until 2015.