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TIL that over 56% of the world’s coastline is in Canada

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oRNXL TIL during his bachelor's degree, Robert Andrews Millikan was asked to teach elementary physics course although he was studying classics. He accepts the offer, studies a physics book during a summer vacation and after 34 years he wins the Nobel Prize for Physics.
0wbwA TIL Original hosts usually have low death rates when infected with a pathogen, with fatality rates tending to be much higher in new hosts
jO0p TIL that the major American health insurance companies are one of the largest holders of fast food stock and other forms of investments.
XEr9X TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility".
QNN9X TIL Queen ELIZABETH II is related to Prophet Muhammad. Historians believe Elizabeth II is a descendant of the founder of Islam after tracing her family tree back 43 generations