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TIL Greenland is portrayed about 14x larger than its actual size on most maps

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vPB8j TIL that the Library of Alexandria was not destroyed in a single massive fire, rather it gradually declined over several centuries
M7Q4V TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine.
LkKNV TIL that the song "Bron-Y Aur Stomp" by Led Zeppelin was about Plant walking in the woods with his dog Strider.
kKE4 TIL: Eugene O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel at Times Square, he also died on November 27, 1953 in another hotel in Boston. His last words were “I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.”
v1ZKL TIL in an early draft of Back to the Future, the time machine was a refrigerator. It was changed because Robert Zemeckis was afraid kids would imitate the film and get trapped.