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TIL That Florida is a gepgraphical oasis. It sits at the perfect latitude for a desert, and if it weren’t a peninsula, it would potentially be as dry as the Sonoran or Sahara.

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GYwk7 TIL pop R&B duo Milli Vanilli topped the charts w/ three #1 hit singles on their debut album & won 1990 Best New Artist Grammy. But the Grammy was revoked & their fame collapsed when it was revealed, not only did they lip sync at concerts, but it wasn’t their voices on the album in the first place
XpwR TIL that Zima, the original “malternative,” was made by filtering low-grade lager through charcoal (a process that strips away both color and taste), then adding citrusy flavor to make it palatable. The drink survived until 2008.
AX9d TIL Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion, China totally believes it.
4XM1J TIL Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in an erroneously labeled "natural" or "primitive" state.
owrR TIL: Einstein didn’t say that quote about insanity and repetition (or a bunch of other popular misattributions)