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TIL Google Street View’s north most point is a snowmobile ride through Svalbard, an island without any roads.

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O5n7 TIL that thanks to the transitive property of TV crossovers, Friends, Cheers, Seinfeld, MASH, and The Dick Van Dyke show all take place on the same universe
VBb8 TIL the Japanese currency is the ‘en’. It was Westerners who mistook it as yen.
nempr TIL the inventor the saxophone almost died several times as a child, including falling into a cast iron frying pan and drinking vitriolozed water.
698Rl TIL that Australia is wider than the moon, depending on how you measure.
rRrPo TIL it costs just 55¢ to mail a letter to Little Diomede in the Bearing Strait (2 miles from Russia), the USPS’s costliest route at $300,000 per year. The 119 resident Eskimos rely on the USPS subsidizing the cost of the weekly helicopter runs delivering food and medication.