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TIL that while the name of the largest great lake is Superior in English, it is Gitche Gumee in Ojibwe

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mxJPP TIL around 2.5 billion years ago, the Oxygen Catastrophe occurred, where the first microbes producing oxygen using photosynthesis created so much free oxygen that it wiped out most organisms on the planet because they were used to living in minimal oxygenated conditions
Yp0G TIL A US man who stored his amputated leg in a barbecue smoker that was later auctioned off is locked in a custody dispute with the man who bought it
kObvW TIL that the direct opposite part of the world from where you are is called your ‘antipode’ and the vast majority of the USA’s antipode is actually in the Indian Ocean.
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yQ5wV TIL of Jesse Sharp, who died going over Niagra Falls in a kayak, confident enough that he had dinner reservations booked that evening. He refused to wear both a helmet and a life jacket.