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TIL that Oxford University existed before the Aztec Empire was founded

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loLeV TIL bar-tailed godwits, a type of bird, breed in Alaska, and then migrate south for the winter - they fly to New Zealand in one non-stop trip which can take up to 9 days, not even stopping to feed. The round-trip migration for this subspecies is over 29,000 km.
Jv9Q TIL in 1810 London came to a standstill from a prank by Theodore Hook who sent out thousands of letters requesting services that included hundreds of coal deliveries, wedding cakes, priests, lawyers, doctors, chimney sweeps, and over a dozen pianos to be delivered to the same address.
VBpgQ TIL A chinese father hired virtual assassins to continuously kill his son's WoW character to force him to get a job
8KWX TIL that there are 20 planets with a rating of 80+ habitat conditions, meaning that we can colonize said planets.
jWJn TIL that Garfield was never meant to be funny.