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TIL that Finland, the country of thousands of lakes, does not have that much water. The average depth of its lakes is only 7 meters, meaning that all the lake water in Finland combined is less than a fourth of the contents of Ladoga. However, to be fair, Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe.

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9XAM TIL that upon reaching the Pacific Ocean in 1805, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery held a vote to decide where to set up their camp. This vote included a black man (Clark’s slave, York) and a Native American woman (Sacagawea), with everyone’s vote having equal weight.
grlJA Today I learned The Lost Generation is the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s.
VM9RZ TIL the inventor of the bikini had to hire strippers to model it on the fashion runway because women used to recognize bikinis as underwear
R571Q TIL that Gift cards from Big Companies expire because of the accounting problem. Companies like Amazon, use accrual accounting. They enter the value of the Gift cards that are sold as Liabilities, specifically "Prepaid-Sales" Liability which affects their Revenue. Hence they have "Service Charge".
8aeBZ Despite its size (10 times as wide as Earth), Saturn is the only planet in the solar system that's less dense than water. If the planet were placed on an enormous ocean, it would be able to float.