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TIL there was a massive ancient civilization in Illinois. In 1250 the lost city of Cahokia was larger than London. Today more than 120 massive earthen mounds are still located on the site.

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pYr88 TIL about Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island. The Canadian Government has planted 70,000 trees on the 26 mile long sand bar and one has survived: a scrubby pine that is decorated for Christmas every year.
oRMJA TIL that Rocky Balboa’s trainer Mickey Goldmill was based in part, on Rocky Marciano’s coach Charley Goldman.
pPEN TIL a man died from cracking his own neck
XZpQ TIL of the Skeleton Coast of Namibia, aka “The Gates of Hell”, a place so inhospitable that when the MV Dunedin went aground in 1942, passengers were only rescued after another ship ran aground, a big aircraft was damaged on landing, was repaired and crashed again, and several army trucks were lost.
PYRGg TIL that there is a branch of science known as Paleoacoustics which studies what fossils might have sounded like