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TIL that Greenland is possibly made up of 3 islands concealed by the ice sheet

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DMPV TIL the Despicable Me Franchise has a higher grossing revenue than Iron Man, Terminator, Star Trek, and even Toy Story.
X0jgj TIL that the world’s most successful pirate was a Chinese woman named Ching Shih. Estimated there were 80,000 pirates under her command, ~1,000 large junks (Traditional Chinese ships) and ~800 smaller junks
J1km TIL Albert Einstein and his first wife had a daughter, but no one seems to know what happened to her after she was a year old.
b64r9 TIL the buzzing sound heard from a refrigerator is not from the motor, but from the refrigerant rapidly changing from a liquid to a gas and back again.
6Emp8 TIL The longest family tree in the world is that of the Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (551–479 BC), and he is the descendant of King Tang (1675–1646 BC). The tree spans more than 80 generations from him, and includes more than 2 million members.