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TIL Spain shares a land border with Morocco

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dK1d TIL - The Chinese government has a nationwide surveillance system that they ACTUALLY NAMED Skynet
l79vN TIL the two US States tied with the lowest record all-time high temperatures are Alaska and Hawaii, each with a record high of 100F
nW9Vo TIl that in 1964 a Swedish journalist did an experiment where he had a chimpanzee named Peter make a series of pantings and then submitted them to an art show as by Pierre Brassau to see if critics could tell the difference between avant grande art and art by a chimp. Most critics fell for it
wxaW TIL that SEAL Team Six was named so to confuse the Soviets about the actual number of SEAL Teams that were operating. At the time there were only two.
R5ZJa TIL One of the most notorious rotten boroughs in the UK before the Great Reform Act of 1832 was Dunwich, a constituency that had mostly flooded after the sea had encroached upon the town. While only 232 people remained by 1831, it still sent 2 MPs to Parliament.