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TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains.

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woXyo TIL the next supercontinent may form in 200 million to 300 million years when the Pacific Ocean disappears.
oRw1A TIL the performer at the Paris Olympics faced harsh online criticism for his "blue scrotum" act.He explained that he wrote a song called "Nude" and said that the first Olympic athletes in Greece were depicted naked, highlighting the origins of the Games.
waN6 TIL of a P51 fighter pilot captured by the Japanese after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Under torture for info about the Manhattan Project - which he was ignorant of - Marcus McDilda made up a lie that the US had 100 bombs and that Tokyo was the next target. Japan soon surrendered.
D6Oj TIL Jimi Hendrix was discharged from the army due to sleeping on duty and being caught masturbating.
XWn6 TIL that Futurama Comics have been released bi-monthly since 2000, and had and continues to keep the series alive after both of the show’s cancellations.