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TIL The African continent is being split in two due to the birth of a new ocean. In 2005, an eight-meter-wide and 60-kilometer-long stretch of the Earth opened up over a period of just ten days.

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XE8wX TIL about an organization of poets in Amsterdam that read eulogies at the funerals of those who die alone and unmourned.
epa14 TIL Apollo 17 geologist astronaut Harrison Schmitt served in the U.S. Senate, becoming the only "natural scientist" in the Senate since Thomas Jefferson was Vice-President. Schmitt presently is Adjunct Professor of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, teaching "Resources from Space"
KYE89 TIL there is an official Alamo cat 🐈.
gnRA TIL China consumes 42.5 billion packets of instant noodle per year. That’s mean more than 100 million packs are eaten in each day
yNaM TIL There are seven times as many people of Irish decent living in America, than in Ireland.