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TIL that in the town of Zillah, Washington, there is a small church, very appropriately named “The Church of God-Zillah”

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e17L TIL that in 1912 scientist Alfred Wegener first published his theory of continental drift and was ridiculed. He died 1930 when exploring in Greenland; his body was buried there. Over the years his body sailed west at a rate of about 2cm/year carried on the back of the North American tectonic plate.
L1y0 TIL Scientists don’t know how a squid color-camouflages its skin, as they’re completely colorblind.
8arMX TIL there’s a cryptocurrency named Dogecoin with the face of a Shiba Inu as it’s logo. It was made as joke in 2013 but is now worth over $350 million in market value.
neDyB TIL that there is a reservoir in space that holds 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans.
jN5ma TIL the first recorded known incident of mooning was in the first century AD. The procurator of the region in which it took place was named Cumanus