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TIL there is a reservoir’ three times the volume of all the oceans towards Earths core

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eZ8g TIL Cookie Monster is allergic to peanut butter cookies and hazelnut cookies according to the 1978 special “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.”
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jNYnn TIL that the Roman peoples, or the rather wealthy Roman peoples, consumed an artificial sweetener called Sapa. The sweetener was usually made within lead pots, which led many of the people who consumed it to lead poisoning.
LQgrQ TIL The White Australia Policy messed with one of the first major oil spills
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