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TIL that the African continent is starting to split apart, and it will cause a new ocean to form where it splits.

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4kneX TIL that the Immaculate Conception was NOT that Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus … ….. It was that she herself was born without sin …. Immaculada .. (thanks Dad)
kOMvE TIL that Jimmy Carter descended into a reactors core to fix a nuclear meltdown.
4kaGR TIL about the London Beer Flood of 1814. One of the Horse Shoe Brewery's fermentation tank supporting bands snapped and set loose 320,000 gallons of beer on the neighborhood of St. Giles. Ultimately, the beer flood resulted in eight deaths.
JYWev TIL of the four original members of The Killers, only three still write and compose new music, and only two still actively tour. (However, all four remain official members of the band.)
dDaZ8 TIL: There is 12,000 year old rock art in the middle of the Sahara Desert, created by humans when the Sahara was still green and full of life. Some historians believe the human experience of watching the Sahara dry up still exists today as the story of the Garden of Eden