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TIL that the Chattahoochee River that starts in Georgia is over 100 million years old, while the Hudson River in New York is only about 13 to 26 thousand years old.

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DQdae Today I learned of dark lightning, known also as Terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF). Dark lightning discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space.
KYX1E TIL in 1927, 15-year-old tennis player Sidney Wood became the youngest man ever to play Wimbledon. In 1931, aged 19, he became the only person to win Wimbledon by default when his final opponent Frank Shields (Brooke's grandfather) withdrew with an injury. Sidney Wood died in 2009 at the age of 97.
XEe7P TIL that John Travolta has a rank of Khakhan within Scientology which means he could kill someone and get away with it as the Church would cover it up as part of Ethics protection
5VnrQ TIL in the Middle Ages, Christians believed that Muslims worshipped a god named Termagant
VMBaG TIL that during the 1920s a class president candidate at Harvard swallowed a live goldfish in a bid to win more votes. The stunt created a trend of 'goldfish swallowing' which became so popular that eventually Massachusetts state legislature had to create a bill banning it