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TIL the peak of Mount Etna is the world's only decipoint. A point where ten municipalities' borders converge.

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KOjdG TIL about the term 'gamaroosh' used by English television personality and necrophiliac Sir Jimmy Savile, meaning going down on corpses to muck about and have oral sex with them.
PYerV TIL it took 49 years to publish the first authoritative English dictionary. It took five years to publish the first part, A to Ant.
996m TIL diamond really has no value. De Beers created an ad that convinced generations of young men and women that diamonds are valuable and synonymous with love
4XGaX TIL It is estimated that 16 gorillas were killed during the Rwandan war, but the overall population increased from 320 to 355. Gorillas survived because they moved father up the mountains, away from violent humans and no faction wanted the bad publicity of being responsible for a gorilla death
KOBdQ TIL of Michael Fagan, the man who broke into Buckingham Palace. Twice.