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TIL the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachians are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains.

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P1D6G TIL Xanadu, the exotic "stately pleasure-dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, was a real abandoned city in Inner Mongolia, China. Kublai Khan built it as the Yuan dynasty's summer capital, and Marco Polo visited during his travels.
BVoK TIL, according to FBI statistics, violent bank robberies are incredibly rare. In fact, most bank robberies (61%) involve a single person handing the teller a note and then walking out without incident.
woKW6 TIL 1985 remains one of the deadliest years in aviation history for aviation disasters, including the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 (520 people killed), a mid-air collision between Aeroflot Flight 8381 and a transport aircraft (94), the hijacking of Egyptair Flight 648 (60), among others
e0LKg TIL in 2015 there was a duck in England, named Star, who liked wearing a bow tie, going to the pub with his owner and having a pint of beer.
W8ZX TIL the President of the United States serves as the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America during his term in office.