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TIL Americans didn’t lose their British accent, the British accent evolved; Brits used to sound more like Americans rather than vice versa.

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R5r7a TIL Willow Creek, California is known as " Bigfoot Capital of the World" and has a Bigfoot Museum housing 30 plaster cast footprints, including one measuring 16 inches. It is close to Bluff Creek, where the famous Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot footage was filmed
l705V TIL that in April 2018, Robert Pope completed the Forrest Gump run, in which he ran across America 5 times in 422 days of running. It is estimated that he ran 15,607 miles. As his first act after finishing the run he proposed to his girlfriend.
7avp TIL a woman was imprisoned for 15 days and deported for allowing her kindergarten class to name a teddy bear Muhammad
E1Xmd TIL only 15 senators have been expelled, 14 were during Civil War for supporting Confederacy.
ADPWd TIL someone actually set up a solar powered MP3 and speaker in the middle of the Namibian desert to play play “Africa” by Toto for eternity