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TIL: While taking a picture or video with the iphone camera, you can hold your finger down on a certain spot to lock the focus and exposure. This stops the lighting from constantly changing while you are recording a video! Just found this out and it's so helpful!

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ZPep TIL if all the frozen water stored near the south pole of Mars suddenly melted, it would make a planetwide ocean 11 meters deep.
VadD TIL in 1953 that Austrian Inge Sargent married a Prince from Burma (Myanmar), but he didn’t tell her he was a Prince until they sailed back to Burma and were greeted at the docks by hundreds of well-wishers.
vkj8 TIL that after radio host Tim Shaw told Jodie Marsh live on air that he would leave his wife and two children for her, Shaw’s wife listed his Lotus Esprit on Ebay for 50 pennies. The car sold within five minutes.
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M7Vd0 TIL California almost got its first Major League Baseball team in 1941, 15 years before the Dodgers and Giants moved