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TIL that in the UK April Fools' Day ends at noon

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VBWa8 TIL There Was A Priest On The Toronto Maple Leafs
Z8NQo TIL AJ Jacobs embarked on a quest to read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and was a contestant on "Millionaire" but only won $32,000 because he forgot what an erythrocyte was. He also visited the Brittanica HQ and discovered that not even the editor-in-chief knew every fact in its publication
WVoN TIL a man at Auschwitz voluntarily stepped in to die for a complete stranger, the man he replaced went on to live another 53 years
m1dQy TIL NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 2015, carries onboard a portion of the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto. Also onboard (among other things) are a nylon American Flag, a 1991 postage stamp that reads "Pluto: Not Yet Explored", and FL and MD state quarters.
opjW TIL that there’s a public basketball court in Alma, Colo., which sits at an elevation of 10,578 feet above sea level. It’s literally the highest court in the land.