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TIL The eastern most point of Greece is further east than Istanbul

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wL7NJ TIL of Otokichi, a Japanese sailor who was shipwrecked and drifted to the Pacific Northwest in 1834. He stayed with the native Makah tribe before the local British agent sent him to London. He then moved to Macao and worked for the British, only returning to Japan twice more (once in disguise).
nWjOG TIL Catherine O'Hara's yell of "KEVIN!" in Home Alone happened because she forgot the actual line, "We left Kevin home alone!"
pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison
e0k9b TIL that a group of wild cats is called "a destruction".
MAa0 TIL An Iranian fighter attempted to down a UFO. He instead immediately lost all communications, weapons, and instrumentation, which were purely mechanical.