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TIL There’s a pink lake in Australia

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DQ1XP TIL that Britain proposed a Franco-British Union in 1940 to prevent the French from surrendering to Germany. Philippe Pétain referred to the union as "fusion with a corpse".
eJr5 TIL that in 1915, a man named Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the result!, a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.
kp5m TIL prior to WWII in Nazi Germany, a group of German teens known as the Edelweiss Pirates rebelled against the authoritarian Nazi regime.They intermingled with the opposite sex, grew their hair long, and wore outlawed clothes.During WWII,many spread Ally propaganda and assisted German army deserters
Ok07 TIL the second longest running animated show in the US is the PBS show “Arthur”, about Arthur the Aardvark
9oVB TIL that Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.