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TIL there are rainbow mountains in China that have formed as the result of 24 million years of multicolored sandstone pressed together.

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Z8lDB TIL about an event known as an "October Surprise." An October Surprise is a news event deliberately timed just before a US election in order to influence the outcome of that election.
gr0jW TIL of Witzelsucht, a neurological condition which causes people to compulsively tell inappropriate puns or stories in social situations.
OopaL TIL - Watergate was not just a break-in but there were 69 people indicted and 48 people—many of them top Nixon administration officials—convicted.
ZpmGo TIL flies can live for days without their head
8erNV TIL, despite the band’s enduring popularity, Nirvana never had a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100.