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TIL Easter will be on April Fool’s Day in 2018

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DQ1Yv TIL Proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) have the longest nose of all primates
j4Kv TIL that people wanted to censor Washington Crossing the Delaware because they thought his watch was his penis
vjgL TIL Most scholars accept the story of Dhul-Qarnayn in the Quran is a reference to Alexander the Great
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.
R5Vol TIL MLB Legend Ted Williams was “frozen cryonically” after his death in a process called neuropreservation