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TIL that the International Date Line was only discovered after Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the world and discovered he "lost" a day compared to those who stayed in Spain.

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Yy1x TIL Yoko Ono once brought a dead rat in a shoebox to a recording studio, and insisted that the sound engineer record it. The engineer recorded two takes of the “dead rat solo.”
gGLA TIL the reason why the Ancient One from the Dr. Strange movie was played by a Caucasian (Celtic) person rather than an Asian (Tibetan) person. It’s because if it was otherwise, there is a risk the movie will be banned in China. That’s a big market they would lose if banned.
5Yxdp TIL the Grand Canyon Museum had three buckets of radioactive uranium ore on display for 18 years, and only found out when a kid was goofing around with a Geiger counter
neKy9 TIL the fate of the Tiananmen Square Tank Man is unknown.
p8xNO TIL that some 15,000 Nigerian children were branded as witches and most ended up abandoned and living on the streets.