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TIL that Norway is considering moving it’s border 40 meters to give Finland a mountain as its 100th birthday present, the peak would also become Finland’s highest point.

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W7g5X TIL in June 1998, Bill Morgan faced a near-death experience after a heart attack left him lifeless for approximately 14 minutes, only to be miraculously revived by doctors, leading to a 15-day coma. He defied the odds by winning a $30,000 car in a lottery draw, and astonishingly repeated his luck on
dDxa8 TIL about Shahrazad, a real (albeit banned in tournament play) Magic the Gathering card that requires the players to immediately begin a sub-game of Magic with the results impacting the original game
nWx0Y TIL about the “Old Man of the Lake,” a 30-foot tall, 450 year old tree stump, most likely a hemlock, that has been bobbing vertically in Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896. Moving freely, it can be virtually anywhere on the lake, so boat captains commonly communicate its position for safety.
QNL4a TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"
V9bD TIL the first “lolcat” was unintentionally created in 1870 when British photographer Harry Pointer took a series of photos of cats in amusing poses and added humorous text to them to further increase their appeal.