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TIL: Will Smith was actually born and raised in West Philadelphia.

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R5rN8 TIL the original Leopard 1 main battle tank was designed by luxury car maker Porsche. Porsche also submitted a design for the WW2 era tiger tank but lost out to a competitor.
vPYOB TIL that in almost all species of birds, only the left ovary is functional. Although the female embryo has two ovaries, the right one typically is nonfunctional in the adult bird.
BrA7d TIL asphalt is not only a naturally occurring substance (tar pits, oil sands, etc.), but is erupted from asphalt volcanoes, a rare type of submarine volcano. Some of these have formed seamounts, and a few are even still active today.
0d5Vy TIL that the island of Tristan de Cunha is the southernmost inhabited British overseas territory but was originally deemed, in 1793, as not being suitable for habitation let alone as a proposed penal colony.
W7pg8 TIL that the Hoba meteorite is the largest in the world which estimates to 60 tons is discovered in Namibia