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TIL there is no official difference between a hill and a mountain

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x6EZ7 TIL most Scottish people are of Germanic Angle decent, not Celtic/Gaelic and the Scots language diverged from Early Middle English and is different to Scottish Gaelic which came from Irish colonisation of Scotland, who the Romans called "Scotti"
OGgPL TIL it is illegal to collect bird feathers in the United States under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA)
YjZ7 TIL found roaming outside Canberra, Australia, Chris the sheep avoided shearing for years. The fleece was so massive, Chris could barely walk. It took five shearers 42 minutes to remove 89 pounds of wool, which set an (unofficial) world record for most wool.
VBN7D TIL that Earth's magnetic field experiences a reversal, on average, every 160.000-200.000 years(4-5 events/milion years): the North Pole becomes South and the South Pole becomes North. The last one, however, happened 780.000 years ago.
WZx9 TIL that our brains do not reach full maturity until at least our mid-20s.