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TIL The last king of Rome was named Superbus

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WkKGN Today I learned about the Driftless Area; a rugged area of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and a minor part of Illinois that was completely missed by glaciers. It is roughly the size of West Virginia, and is home to huge bluffs, deep canyons, and rare species of plants found no where else.
oby7 TIL Men in Black was based on a comic book, and instead of wiping witnesses’ minds, they simply killed them.
4kDVb TIL about the Ponzo Illusion, which is is a visual phenomenon where two identical lines appear different in length due to converging background lines, creating a sense of perspective and depth distortion
e0vQ6 TIL Papau New Guinea has the highest rates of oral cancer in the world, due in large part to a large portion of the population chewing betel nut as a stimulant
79db TIL that a few thousand years before Plato described Atlantis there really was a big island which disappeared in the middle of the North Sea