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TIL that the Panama Canal is 85 feet ABOVE sea level and uses new Locks to conserve water.

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JKB TIL an Australian teen actually rode a whale and then got in trouble for it
grd5D TIL between January 1995 and June 2005, Swiss citizens voted 31 times, on 103 federal questions besides many more cantonal and municipal questions. During the same period, French citizens participated in only two referendums.
OEmX TIL the state name “Idaho” doesn’t mean anything. Some guy just made it up for shits and giggles in the 1860s.
9jWM TIL: The first use of the phrase “May the Fourth be with you” was by a Danish political party which placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News when Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister on May 4th 1979, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.”
N7lJP TIL about the Great Stork Derby, a contest held by a Toronto financier and practical joker which bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in the decade following his death. Two women won and were each given $1.91m in today's dollars