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TIL Geologists consider the Hudson River Valley to be a Fjord.

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0wZaR TIL in 1977, a woman in New Mexico saw a burn mark in her tortilla that looked like the face of Jesus. She then built and ran the "Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla" until 2006 when the tortilla was dropped and broken during show-and-tell at a local elementary school.
ANNYo TIL of CDR. Ernest E. Evans, a Native American U.S. Navy captain during WWII. Evans was awarded the Medal of Honor as part of the Battle Off Samar, where he captained a destroyer against the IJN Yamato and an otherwise overwhelming force
LVGr TIL there’s a place called The Bolton Strid, which looks like a stream from the surface, but is actually a water filled, underground chasm. You fall in, and you don’t come out.
Z8dLY TIL The average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kg
wLDoP TIL Toni Morrison helped fund “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” a play by Ishmael Reed that critiques the white-washing in Hamilton