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TIL Lake Baikal in Siberia has more water than all the Great Lakes combined.

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GD51 TIL that high school graduates in Kalamazoo, Michigan are eligible for a free college education thanks to anonymous donors
6EZE8 TIL that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by "some" evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to "believable" evidence.
nY0G TIL The so called GTA gang killed 17 motorists between 2013 and 2014. It operated by stopping random cars at night on Moscow highways and then shooting dead its passengers at point-blank range for no apparent reason.
b6vg0 TIL The first picture of Earth from space was taken by a WW2 era V-2 rocket built by the USA, after capturing German scientists who had worked on the 'Vengeance Weapon'. It was built with both captured Nazi Germany components and remanufactured parts.
XExYP TIL about Elizabeth Cochrane, who, under the pseudonym of Nellie Bly, got herself admitted into an insane asylum in Blackwell's Island by feigning insanity to uncover what really goes on there and how the patients are treated. Her exposé of the conditions of the patients were collected into a book