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TIL That France shares its largest border not with a european country but with South America’s Brazil.

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rNkGo TIL in the original script to Rocky V, Rocky is so beaten from his fight with Tommy that he places his head on Adrian’s lap while on the way to the hospital and dies. Stallone apparently wept when he wrote that scene.
QNv4L TIL in 2014, a toddler died after his dad accidentally left him in a hot car for 7 hours. A jury sentenced him to life without parole because he was having an affair that day, making them believe he left his son to die to start a new life. A surpreme court overturned the 'unfair' conviction in 2022.
mZAO TIL in 1987 the US Government approved a project to construct world’s largest super collider. As of 2011 the construction site sits abandoned, with as a total $2 billion dollars wasted.
N7Oa8 TIL less than 10% of blind people can read Braille
XEQpk TIL that a coin flip isn’t actually ‘fair’ — in a typical coin toss, there is a 51% chance that the coin will land on the side it started on.