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TIL that the Green Hornet is the Lone Ranger's grand-nephew

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N7l46 TIL the state of Alaska has over 3 million natural lakes.
9VBD TIL Nicholas Cage was offered the role of Aragon in the first Lord of the Rings film but turned it down due to ‘family obligations’
J1ALv TIL that the nation of Costa Rica has no military.
5V7dB TIL: In the 1860s, Napoleon III subsidized the development of an early version of the fax machine. The pantelegraph could transmit a small piece of paper with 25 words in 108 seconds and was often used to verify signatures in banking transactions.
94ND TIL deep in Africa there are accounts of people seeing dinosaur-like creatures that resembles a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. The locals call it Mokèlé-mbèmbé and there have been several documented expeditions to find it from as early as 1776 to as late as 2012.