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N7m66 TIL about Congo's Salonga National Park. The world’s second largest tropical rainforest national park and the largest in Africa. It is considered to be practically virgin, unaffected by human activities and largely unexplored.
awddM TIL a unit of measurement common in Sweden and Norway, but not in Denmark, is the Scandinavian Mile, or the Mil, pronounced like meal. It is equal to 10 kilometres, but has been longer in the past.
4XW6w TIL When the Japanese surrendered in WW2, they anticipated that widespread violence against Japanese women would occur in Japan. As a precaution the Japanese government set up brothels to curb this.
dO8r TIL that according to legend, a female pope named Pope Joan reigned for a few years during the middle ages, disguised as a man. After she was caught, potential popes has to sit on a chair with a hole on the seat, and a cardinal would reach through it to check to make sure the new pope had testicles.
8ajbG TIL in the original 1902 Broadway musical of the Wizard of Oz, the lion's quest for courage is completely omitted, Toto is replaced with a cow named Imogene, King Pastoria II, a Kansas motorman, is Oz's true king, and their efforts to seek the Wizard's aid gets them scheduled for execution.