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TIL the Portuguese-Spanish border has its own name, "The Stripe".

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KZw6 TIL that the croissant, due to a legend that it was created to celebrate Christian victories over Islam, has been banned by some Islamic fundamentalists.
NXb1b TIL Research shows that viewing online cat media is related to positive emotions. It may even work as a form of digital therapy or stress relief for some users. Some feelings of guilt from postponing tasks can also be reduced by viewing cat content.
Ypp9P Suppose two Chinese parents get on an Australian airplane and, while flying over U.S. territory, they have a baby on the plane. Can that baby be an American citizen?
W7mL TIL that a mathematically viable explanation for the complete indistinguishability of electrons is that they are all the same particle moving forward and backward through time
Zp0v4 TIL of Steganography, a field similar to cryptography, but that involves concealing a message rather than encoding it. For example, hiding an image in audio, or even hiding one image in the data of another. A famous example, a POW in Vietnam blinked TORTURE in morse code during a newscast.