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TIL the Solar System's tallest cliff face is 20 km (12 miles) on Miranda, the smallest moon around Uranus.

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vPNGL TIL the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was so powerful that it increased Earth's rotation speed and shortened the length of the day by 2.68 microseconds
KOmd4 TIL actor Ed Helms had open-heart surgery at age 13 to correct a severe congenital heart defect, which he described as supravalvular aortic and pulmonic stenosis. His surgery lasted nine hours and he was kept in intensive care unit for one week after
QNemd TIL: AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine. In 2024, 23% of Anguilla's entire yearly revenue consisted of selling its national domain name ".ai".
DQ5OP TIL that in Argentina there's a law by which the president becomes the godfather of any seventh child of a given gender to protect them against becoming a witch or werewolf. The child receives a golden medal and a scholarship.
KOlj4 TIL: the U. S. Government encouraged the extinction of the American Bison to starve and force Native Americans onto reservations.