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TIL there are 16,000 acres of sand dunes in Alaska - Kobuk Valley National Park

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6okw TIL that 30 years ago, you could buy a pass for lifelong, unlimited first-class travel with American Airlines. Now they’re sueing some who did.
mAlo TIL of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a secret society where the only requirement for entry to the club is that one must have a physical resemblance to plausibly look like a son of Lee Marvin. Members include Tom Waits, Jim Jarmusch, Nick Cave, Neil Young and Josh Brolin.
BrPDd TIL of the battle of Central station where 5,000 soliders refused to do extra duty and walked off camp, crowded trains bound for Sydney where they were joined by 10,000 more soliders and spent the rest of the day raiding pubs and turning over fruit carts.
nemGB TIL that the neurons in an octopus are not concentrated in the brain - 2/3 of them are located in the tentacles meaning that each individual tentacle acts autonomously and independently of the brain. However, an octopus can exert precise control over a tentacle when need be through eyesight alone.
x64y5 TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance (for some reason), so they signed autographs for their families to sell in case they didn’t return.