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TIL during the last ice age icebergs were found as far south as Miami

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nZYP TIL that Birmingham, the UK’s second city, has more canals than Venice, more trees than Paris, and the largest public library in Europe.
kaGW TIL on January 1 2019, works published in 1923 will enter the public domain. These will be the first works to do so since the 1998 copyright extension commonly known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
rRrpM TIL You don't get vitamin D from the sun. You make vitamin D from cholesterol in its inactive form. Inside your cells, this inactive form gets subjected to UV light which is provided by the sun and then gets activated. That's where the whole "vitamin D from the sun" idea comes from.
95xB TIL Only about 60-80% of your height is due to genetics, the rest is mainly due to nutrition.
dDvxQ TIL the New Zealand Army's Maori name, Ngāti Tūmatauenga, translates to "Tribe of the God of War"