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e0WNL TIL that the Sumerian God Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by ejaculating into dry riverbeds
8ebyG TIL a music producer in Japan put two different endings for the physical CDs of an album themed around quantum physics. This way, people would "observe" one of the two outcomes of the album, as in quantum mechanics.
9Y6or TIL that the word "National" in the "National Hockey League" refers to Canada, since for the first 7 years of play, all of the teams in the NHL were located in Canada.
98YM TIL that Glass-Steagall was repealed under Bill Clinton, not George Bush, and is considered the leading contributor to the economic recession
kJOKg TIL that the 1812 New Madrid earthquake made the Mississippi River flow backwards and cause a fluvial tsunami that hit Missouri