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TIL: The Pacific Ocean terminus of the Panama Canal is actually to the east of the Atlantic Ocean terminus.

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BrJrL TIL MMA fighter Ronda Rousey is of English, Polish, Trinidadian & Venezuelan descent. Her Trinidadian great-grandfather was one of the first black doctors in Canada & her English-American mother holds a PhD & won the World Judo Championship in 1984.
GGBE TIL that the song Baby It’s Cold Outside was written and sung by a married couple to sing at the end of parties to get guests to leave
rNyMy TIL in 1892 Edward Doheny couldn't pay his rent when his daughter died followed by his wife committing suicide. He borrowed money and devised a drilling system using a tree and drilled the first oil wells in Los Angeles becoming an oil tycoon. The movie There Will Be Blood is loosely based on him.
PPrn TIL that “Bride Kidnapping” is a tradition in many countries, and is responsible for up to 75% of the marriages in Kyrgyzstan, although it’s illegal.
4XyDN TIL: Thanks to a gruesome mistake, a French Canadian Voyageur was shot in the stomach, but later healed and recovered from the wound, scientists were better able to understand the digestive tract thanks to how his wound healed, which allowed probing of his stomach actively digesting.