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TIL that Minnie Mouse's full name is actually Minerva

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DQKQv TIL Australia is the lowest and flattest continent in the world with an average elevation of only 1000 feet due to being near the centre of a tectonic plate
0Q65 TIL of Thad Roberts, a former intern at NASA, who served a 6 year sentence in a federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks gathered from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission
DyDg TIL for 3 decades legendary female pro wrestler The Fabulous Moolah effectively controlled most of the female wrestling in the US, would allegedly sexually and financially exploit the women she managed, and sabotaged any female wrestler who could pose the threat of taking her place professionally.
XEn8r TIL that it takes your GPS receiver up to 12 minutes to adjust the time correctly. The GPS time is presently 18 seconds ahead of UTC because they started timekeeping in 1980 and can't factor in leap seconds.
QNyrX Today I learned of the 1788 specialized dictionary "A Classical History of the Vulgar Tongue", by Francis Grose which includes 500 plus pages of virtually all the best lowbrow slang, dirty words and rude insults to be found in 18th century language.