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TIL Michael Clarke Duncan was Notorious BIG’s bodyguard.
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TIL that Erik The Red who discovered Greenland, called it Greenland in spite of its ice cover, because people would be attracted to go there if it had a favorable name, and used it as a trick to lure settlers to Greenland
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TIL in June 1942, Japan launched an invasion of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, marking the only military campaign of WWII to take place in North America
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TIL that for decades, anatomists and zoologists were confounded by the origin of whales. Then, at the end of the 20th century, a wealth of fossil finds provided a detailed outline of how hoofed land mammals became the sea’s largest swimmers.
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TIL in Australia meter maids exist who feed the meter rather then issuing a ticket
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TIL that the Chinese Old Summer Palace was so big that during the Second Opium War it took 4000 British and French soldiers 3 days to loot and destroy it without any resistance