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TIL that Fort Ross, built on the coast of California just north of San Francisco, was the southernmost Russian settlement in colonial North America from 1812 to 1841.

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dKvQ TIL that the last duel in Canada was between two men who were so terrified of dueling, one fainted and the other was seized by horror. The guns were also loaded with blanks
D1k8r TIL about the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans. Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt were denied from participating. They then decided to start drinking. When they were reinstated, they drove drunk, broke the average speed record and won the race!
6EBMQ TIL Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution
WkrMB TIL the world will start running out of fresh water by 2040
RlPj TIL that the publishers of the game ‘Advent Rising’ originally offered $1,000,000 to the first person to find all hidden symbols within the game, but then had to change it to 'copies of several of its games’ due to issues with Xbox Live.