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TIL Earths geographical North magnetic polarity is negative(-) while the South is positive(+), defying conventional thinking.

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G8xN TIL that the CDC has urged that schools open later because two-thirds of teenagers suffer chronic sleep deprivation.
698Z TIL that, prior to WWII in the United States, Einstein was so well-known that people regularly stopped him on the street to inquire about his theories, to which he began replying, “Pardon me, I am often mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
a88vZ TIL the Masai Tribe in Africa donated 14 cows to the United States after 9/11
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ZpKOv TIL that "Julie; or, the New Heloise" was the best-selling novel of the 1700s. Some readers were so obsessed that they could not accept that the book was fiction. Rousseau, the author, said that so many women offered sex to him that he could have slept with any aristocratic woman had he wanted to.