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TIL that, statistically speaking, Kansas is actually FLATTER than a pancake.

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ORRa TIL of Manaus, a Brazilian city of 2 million people deep in the Amazon Rainforest. It was once a notoriously extravagant rubber boom town in the 1800s. An opera house was built with European marble & crystal. One visiting opera troupe had half of its performers die from yellow fever in one season.
W7L9o Today I Learned that barber shops were once considered incredibly disreputable and doubled as gambling dens
lo5P5 TIL in Scotland and Ireland, 29 February in a leap year is said to be the one day when a woman can propose to her partner. Finland has the same custom, with the addition that a man rejecting such a proposal was expected to buy his suitor enough cloth for a skirt as compensation.
ep6w4 TIL there are 20 mountains over 23,000 ft in the world that have never been climbed.
gMXlX TIL that ‘nickname’ isn’t actually the proper word and it’s actually ‘ekename’. But when saying it to be grammatically correct you say ’an ekename’, then through speech it gradually morphed into ‘a nekename’ (nickname)