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TIL Napoleon Dynamite was a pseudonym used by singer-songwriter Elvis Costello in the 80s

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R7eO1 TIL about Bertha Lutz, a Brazilian zoologist who specializes in studying poisson dart frogs that was also a leading figure in the Pan American feminist movement who signed the UN Charter for Brazil and where she also fought for women’s suffrage.
YYYA TIL A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
1x7 TIL there is a group of redditors trying to purchase an island
PYPZE TIL a study was conducted involving separating infant twins through an adoption agency to study nature vs nurture . The twins involved in the experiment were never given knowledge of the study and the findings never published. The records are contained at Yale and will not be released until 2066.
69YP7 TIL Mexican General Santa Anna had an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.