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TIL There is a city called Kanorado that sits on the state line between Kansas and Colorado

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nWWAW TIL that only 1 in every 1000 sea turtles born will survive to maturity
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
xV4aB TIL Queens went from having a 96.54% white population in 1950 to 44.08% of it being white in 2000.
0wlkv TIL the Island of Sri Lanka/Ceylon only became an island in 1480, when the narrow landbridge connecting the peninsula to the Indian Subcontinent was destroyed by a massive cyclone after years of gradual erosion.
xeKB TIL it is believed some, if not all, of the crew of the Challenger disaster survived the explosion and were instead killed when they hit the water after falling for almost 3 minutes.