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TIL despite sharing more than 200 miles of border with Wisconsin and only sharing a bridge with Michigan, the Upper Peninsula is part of Michigan (not Wisconsin) because of a fight with Ohio

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d8Rrr TIL that the largest beaver dam is 2,790 ft (850 m) in length, twice the width of the Hoover Dam!
15OV TIL in Germany the name of a child must indicate the gender of the child and not negatively affect the well being of the child.
Oo7jR TIL Charles N'Tchoréré, a Senegalese Tirailleurs Sgt. during WW1, CMDR of the Tirailleurs in French Sudan, came out of retirement to enlist in WW2 as a Captain of a French mixed Coy. Surrounded, they resisted for 3 days at 1 on 10. Refusing to be separated from his white men, Germans executed him
5VgL9 TIL A Diplodocus skeleton cast, nicknamed 'Dippy', donated to the Natural History Museum in 1905, is cleaned once every two years, and takes a team of staff two days to clean its 292 bones.
pRrb TIL a US Navy battleship was shut down for 3 hours because its computer divided by zero, causing the whole network to crash.