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TIL according to “The Simpsons” director of animation (David Silverman), the city of Springfield is located in the fictional state of “North Takoma”.

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wd6M TIL after a 10 year, $40m project, the Leaning Tower of Pisa stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history. The tower is now expected to stay stable for at least 200 years.
DQ1Vj TIL that five months before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, George Harrison became the first Beatle to step foot in America when he visited his older sister who was living in Southern Illinois.
8e6bK TIL about the Quasi War an undeclared war fought between 1798 to 1800 by the United States and the French First Republic. It took place at sea, primarily the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States.
9YJOB TIL: Ultima Thule was thought to have a unique snowman shape but once the spacecraft arrived it revealed an even stranger flattened gingerbread man shape
wL5jo TIL the total biomass of all the ants in the world is approximately equal to the total biomass of the entire human race.