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TIL The Yangtze River is the 3rd longest river but the longest with a watershed in only one country. TIL#2: A few tributaries of the Missouri River start in Canada

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rRpB0 TIL in 1956, the first modern American mall opened-- the Southdale Shopping Center in Edina, Minnesota. Upon touring, architect Frank Lloyd Wright criticized it "had all the evils of the village street and none of its charm... You should have left downtown downtown." History proved Wright wrong.
R8J6 TIL Back in the 80s there was a service called Video Mailbox which allowed movie rentals through the mail to customers who paid a monthly fee with no late fees where they could set up a queue, and that had almost every movie available on VHS
e0dLb TIL that locusts, such as those mentioned in the Bible, are grasshoppers, and I am thirty years old.
oRnKL TIL In 1988 the Polar Bridge Expedition, a group of 13 people, successfully skied from Siberia to Canada
wo5BM TIL that on average women live five years longer than men, and that by age 85 around 67% of the population is female in the US.