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TIL 3000ft up a mountain in France is a block of sandstone commemorating the exact spot where the author Victor Hugo was conceived.

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Wvlo TIL The famous thumbs up from Vault Boy from Fallout is not just a gesture, but a method of measuring radiation from a nuclear blast.
0wN81 TIL Pangaea was not the first supercontinent. That honor goes to the billion year old landmass known as Rodinia. The continents routinely split apart and come back together, a process known as the supercontinent cycle.
PYJOe TIL that the British Crown owns the copyrights to the King James Version of the Bible. Passed down through the reigning monarchs the Queen now possesses the rights to those specific translations.
DQg0P TIL the title of the Cream album "Disraeli Gears" came when Eric Clapton mentioned wanting a racing bicycle to a roadie and the roadie said "oh yeah, disraeli gears," meaning to say "derailleur gears"
wLN1Y TIL Father's Day was first officially declared a holiday by President Nixon in 1972.