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TIL in 2015 three inmates from a maximum security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate.

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VNOB TIL on the most remote island in the world, Bouvet Island, there is an unexplained abandoned boat left near one of the shores
gMV0A TIL that New Yorkers have a bad history with quarantine, a mob burning the first quarantine hospital to the ground
OGGm7 TIL that roughly 99% of the world's population will be in daylight on July 8th at 7:15am ET. About 6.4 billion people will be in daytime while 1.2 billion will be in twilight.
xVN41 TIL Glass actually neither a liquid—supercooled or otherwise—nor a solid. It is an amorphous solid—a state somewhere between those two states of matter. Glass atoms move too slowly for changes to be visible.
0d05y TIL of the 'Azolla event', a situation in which a species of floating fern covered the Arctic Ocean ~49 million years ago; scientists suspect the fern grew so aggressively that it removed enough CO2 from the atmosphere to initiate a global ice age