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TIL during WW2, Finland fought alongside the Nazis vs. Russia before it was clear that balance of power was shifting

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VwMB TIL there are stars in the known universe that are cold enough to be touched by the human hand
d8j9E TIL that the distance from the top of Africa to the bottom (5000 miles) is the same distance as London to Beijing, China (5055 miles). Senegal in west Africa is closer to Jamaica across the Atlantic than Somalia in east Africa.
NXbDE TIL that in the Kenyan island of Pate, there is a village in which the entire population is descended from medieval Chinese sailors. The story is that when Chinese merchants came to the island to trade with the locals, they ended up running aground. They then decided to settle and marry local women
E1QX TIL that on August 12, 1950, the Catholic Church accepted that the theory of evolution was a valid scientific inquiry.