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TIL that not only does the Mediterranean Sea have Great White sharks, but that historically they were some of the biggest every caught.

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awEOL TIL about the Mandaeans, and ethno-religious group native to southern Mesopotamia. They were likely the first to practice baptism, and are the only surviving Gnostics from antiquity.
eenk TIL on the last day before drinking was banned on the London Underground, thousands of people rode around the Circle Line on the subway until the line was suspended, due to the unruliness of the crowd
awQlN TIL between 2000 and 2001 Tesco was the subject of a letter bomb campaign from a person who demanded that the company's loyalty card be modified to enable withdrawing money from ATMs.
OvkL TIL Leonardo Di Caprio flew in a private jet from Cannes to the US to collect an environmental award
nlgd TIL there is no state within the US where one can afford rent on 40 hours of federal minimum wage work