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TIL 14% of women send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day

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GeGQ TIL a newly detected fracture suggests that tectonic forces are pulling the continents together once again.
Zplop TIL in the video game "1943: The Battle of Midway" the player controls an American plane against the Imperial Japanese Navy with the Battleship Yamato as final boss. Japanese designer Yoshiki Okamoto claimed he was too young when he produced the game to understand the historical irony.
rRLye TIL of the Tibetan blackbird, living in the Himalayas. As a type of bird called a thrush its genus classification is "Turdus" (Latin for "thrush"). And since the Tibetan blackbird is larger than the common blackbird, it has been given the species name "Turdus Maximus."
9wDap TIL that many of Pompeii's residents survived the volcanic eruption -- evidence includes empty stables, empty safes, and hundreds of the unique names of Pompeii families found later in neighboring communities' records
y1O8 TIL of the Havasupai people, a Native American tribe who have lived in the Grand Canyon for over 800 years.