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TIL that the phrase, "The empire on which the sun never sets." originally referred to the Spanish Empire.

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16By8 TIL that in the 2000s there was a case of conjoined triplets, diagnosed at 22 weeks. The mother terminated the pregnancy.
5w58 TIL in 1994 a passenger was killed by a bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight. This led Philippine police to discover a plot to blow up 11 airplanes in 48 hours over the Pacific, and another plot, which they shared with the FBI in 1995, to fly airplanes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
4rXR TIL there is a tree named Pando that is technically an entire forest. It is a clonal colony of 4700 aspens’s that all share the same root system.
k5p1 TIL that hurricanes and cyclones cannot cross the equator.
DX0g TIL the first black president in North America was Vicente Guerrero, the second president of the Republic of Mexico in 1829. He is known for abolishing slavery in Mexico forty years before Lincoln would do the same on the US.