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TIL that as much as half of Earth's water is older than the Sun.

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aXmo TIL of PLUTO, the fuel pipeline-under-the-ocean laid by allied forces to support the D-Day invasions.
oRpl8 TIL a man named Christopher Thomas Knight ran out of gas in rural Maine in 1986, entered the woods, and lived there for 27 years without human contact.
O6pR TIL Nazi soldiers burned civilians alive in the town of Oradour-sur-Glane. Charles de Gaulle ordered that the ruins are not removed, and the empty town still exists as it was in June 1944.
j6yAR TIL that in the Victorian period arsenic colours (which could and did kill) were used to dye consumer goods, from food coloring to baby carriages.
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