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TIL the body of water that includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is known to German oceanographers as the American Mediterranean Sea

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78YvX TIL That the stunt of Jerry Lawler slapping Andy Kaufman on David Letterman was not revealed as a hoax until years later.
ZrNv TIL the guy who brought us “It was a dark and stormy night” also brought us “the pen is mightier than the sword”
nrVG TIL the Quran says do not blow yourselves up.
BrkXk TIL Enzo Ferrari (the founder of Ferrari) never visited Rome, never used a lift and never got on a plane. He only left Italy in one occasion.
Zpx1Q TIL during the Battle of Waterloo the French suffered nearly 40,000 casualties making it one of the deadliest events in French military history. The defeat marked the end of Napoleon’s military career