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TIL that once a year the Jindo Sea parts, revealing a pathway between two islands in South Korea

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9YWJM TIL that in 1926 President Coolidge and his wife were gifted a raccoon as a Thanksgiving dinner gift. They did not want to eat her, so they named Rebecca and kept her as a pet. She had free range of The White House and would go on trips with the couple.
GemN TIL that chinese prisoners were forced to farm gold in WoW which then would get sold for real money on the internet.
xV1b1 TIL: If you stand in any particular spot on Earth, you will experience a total solar eclipse on average about once every 375 years
LkX49 TIL of Bothies. Small shelters, maintained by users and volunteers, for people to stay in on their treks in the mountains.
9yPr TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark’s carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.