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TIL enough people are so certain that the “Berenstain Bears” were once spelled “Berenstein” that it has sparked a theory that they’re from a parallel universe.

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KYwOQ TIL there’s a 7-story rock in a desert near Joshua Tree in California that 1) is maybe the largest freestanding boulder in the world, 2) once had a 24ft by 36ft apartment dug underneath it, and 3) hosted 20 years of Flying Saucer Conventions starting in the 1950s
NXVX1 TIL that the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco is the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas, established by the Franciscans in 1536.
b9oJj Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.
V7Jm TIL: George Washington was worth $525 million in his day (adjusted for inflation)
N7Rpe TIL In 2011 two fishermen from Kiribati went adrift for 33 days before landing in the Marshall Islands. They then found out that their hitherto thought to be dead uncle, who went missing 25 years earlier after also going adrift, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there.