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TIL the border between California and Nevada was not completely agreed upon until 1985.

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MeeDV TIL that a cow-smuggling tunnel was discovered in 2017 under the India–Pakistan border.
E19BW TIL of the Cavalese cable car disaster, where a showboating US Marine Corps pilot sliced a cable car wire in Italy, killing 20. Despite proof of breaking regulations, the pilot and the navigator were acquitted, but later found guilty of destroying evidence.
0wG8j TIL Pentagon employees are banned from playing Pokemon go inside the building because the users' movements are inadvertently mapping the insides of the Pentagon for all to see.
WK7Y TIL there is a “zip bomb” called 42.zip that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
WkBA4 TIL Apple sold about 10 million more watches in 2019 than the entire Swiss watchmaking industry combined