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TIL The Wisconsin River used to flow "backwards" into the Great Lakes basin instead of into the Mississippi River.

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woP67 TIL Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor was the final resident of the infamous 10050 Cielo Drive house before it was razed--the house was the site of the Manson Family murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. Reznor recorded most of his career-defining album, 'The Downward Spiral' there.
pBjA TIL there was an early 70’s #1 Italian song written entirely in english gibberish to mimic what english sounds like to a non-english speaker
ydKl TIL, that Charles Darwin was laid to rest in Westminster abbey. The highest honor the church could offer.
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