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TIL that Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world by area and has no official capital city.

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wYp7 TIL “The Janitor” character from the hit TV show Scrubs was meant to be a figment of JD’s imagination for the first two seasons in case the show needed a plot twist for a sudden cancellation.
6VBX TIL Roger Ebert dated Oprah
0wpEA TIL a Kent State communications major took an audio recording of the war protest from his dorm room in 1970. He created the only real-time account of the shooting, and his original tape was destroyed by the Department of Justice in 1979.
7rNAX TIL 1 billion birds die a year from running into window glass
epgl4 TIL about the black hole information paradox, a conflict in physics between quantum mechanics and general relativity. The latter says that matter which falls into a black hole is lost when the black hole evaporates, but this violates the principle of information conservation in quantum mechanics.