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TIL that there are active subglacial tidal lakes under the ice in Antarctica.

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44D6 TIL that the only Counter-Terrorism unit to end a hijacking while the plane was still in the air was the austrian EKO Cobra
xVAAD TIL Before Bob Dylan's win in 2016, Rabindranath Tagore was the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. He was a wildly talented Indian poet, painter, and musician.
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1X9D TIL all diamonds will eventually decay into graphite