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TIL mountains on the moon Titan are named after mountains from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth

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w4ME TIL that the Wadi-Al-Hitan site in Egypt contains hundreds of fossilized whales
nRro TIL under Brehon law in early Medieval Ireland, women had many of the same rights as men and when married were allowed to keep property they bought themselves and retain it in case of divorce
N76mN TIL 1783 the grand master Philodor played and won three chess games simultaneously while blindfolded. Witnesses signed affidavits since they doubted future generations would believe such a feat was possible.
a8Xd0 TIL from 1942-1945, more than 400,000 prisoners of war, mostly German, were housed in some 500 POW camps located in the USA
mxPov TIL that one-fourth of all of the bones in your body are in your feet—which are made up of 26 bones and 33 joints each—for a grand total of 52 bones in each foot.