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TIL Cleveland, Ohio is further west than mainland South America.

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NXYn6 TIL about Prototaxites, an exctinct genus of fungi that lived around 400 million years ago. They could rich 1m (3 ft) in width and 8m (26 ft) in length, making them by far the largest land-dwelling organism of their time.
m1rNP TIL that Saturn's rings are believed to be relatively new, likely forming within the last 100 million years and as recently as 10 million years ago. They may disappear completely within the next 300 million years.
9QMX TIL there is a turtle in a Japanese aquarium that has artificial flippers.
pYWW8 TIL that Pompeii Bodies are POP casts around the skeleton and Not the Actual Mummified Bodies preserved as it is due to eruption
AJaa TIL that one of the earliest stories featuring time travel is from a Japanese legend called Urashima Tarō. It is about a fisherman who stays in an undersea palace for 3 days,only to return home and find out that 300 years has passed.