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TIL that there is a town called Okay in OK.

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D1vyD TIL The vast number of murals in Mexico City were thought to educate the Mexican people, and the movement was important in the art history of the nation as well as its impact on the educational and expressive capabaility of the broader society
MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".
d8jWr TIL of The Map That Named America. Martin Waldseemüller, the primary author of the 1507 map, used the term “America” for the fist time. In 1513, he had second thoughts on honoring Vespucci and used the term Terra Incognita (unknown land) instead of “America”.
XvXD Til that the giant panda has all the necessary equipment for a meat based diet but it lost a gene that codes for the umami receptor. It has no taste for it and will happily live on bamboo.
g5gX TIL one of the most successful interrogaters in Nazi Germany, Hanns Scharff, preferred freindliness over torture.