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TIL that a Cape Cod lighthouse vanished in 1925, only to reappear across the country in California in 2008…

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6EnL7 TIL that in America, you have to pay a fee of $40 just to have skin to skin contact with your newborn baby.
7DbO TIL that in 1140, when a opposition castle was captured by King Konrad III, the women of the castle were granted free departure and allowed to take what they could carry on their backs. Thinking quickly, the women carried the men on their backs. The King kept his word and let the men live.
M8mW TIL Gladiator 2 was supposed to be about Maximus being revived by the Gods and is given the quest to murder Jesus Christ and his followers in order to save the Gods who are in heaven. No studio wanted to take on the project.
kO005 TIL that even though a Rubik's Cube has 43 billion billion configurations, more than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches, no configuration is more than 20 moves away from being solved, and 99.99999% of all configurations can be solved in less than 20 moves.
X99k TIL that there was a reality show that involved locking 9 strangers in a bunker for an indefinite period of time and could only come out when they unanimously vote who among themselves should be awarded $1,500,000.