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TIL the city of Surprise, Arizona was named by its founder who stated she “would be surprised if the town ever amounted to much.”

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woXyo TIL the next supercontinent may form in 200 million to 300 million years when the Pacific Ocean disappears.
yJB8 TIL that there is a second “Mona Lisa” painting held in a secret vault in Switzerland also thought to have been painted by Leonardo DaVinci that shows a much younger version of the female subject
kRYm TIL there is a theory known as the “Mandela Effect” which states we might be living in parallel universes due to many people having the same ‘false memories’ of past events that did or did not happen.
1aalr TIL there is a theme park in China called Dwarf Kingdom where the main attraction is all the entertainment employees are of short stature
8byV TIL that 42% of the world’s opium users are in Iran.