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TIL Prehistoric monkeys migrated from Africa to South America by traversing the Atlantic Ocean on natural rafts

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keAd TIL francium is the most elusive element on earth, only 20-30 grams of it exist in the crust of the earth at any given time.
78kwL TIL in 1991, the last of California's manual telephone switchboards, which used pull and plug cords, was being replaced with computerized equipment. Most phone companies had replaced them in the 1950s but the owner of Kerman Telephone Company stalled because he did not want to lay off any operators
KAla TIL that Walt Disney originally planned to continually release Fantasia while replacing old segments with new ones, so that viewers would never see the same film twice.
78Lwb TIL about cherophobia - the fear of (or anxiety about) happiness.
xVWM7 TIL In April 1918, Winston Churchill nominated Theodore Roosevelt to be the Allies plenipotentiary to Moscow. The plan was for Roosevelt to make a deal where Lenin reentered the war and the Allies would "safeguard the permanent fruits of the Revolution"