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TIL at the depths of the Great Salt Lake is a super-dense layer of water called the “Deep Brine.” Divers describe it as having the consistency of runny Jello

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wDaW TIL one of the first instances of a stored computer program was in 1801, when Joseph Marie Jacquard demonstrated a loom that wove fabrics based on hole-punched cards that were fed into the machine.
yVQlp TIL President Jimmy Carter visited Three Mile Island during the disaster, not for a publicity shoot but because he was a trained nuclear engineer and wanted to know what was going on personally
EoZx TIL: The American Lung Association states that,“In fact, when equal amounts of marijuana and tobacco are smoked, marijuana deposits four times as much tar into the lungs. This is because marijuana joints are un-filtered and often more deeply inhaled than cigarettes.”
XEKar TIL a 665-foot cargo ship called the Golden Ray capsized off the coast of Georgia in September 2019 carrying around 4,000 Hyundais and Kias as the result of a fire. The entire crew escaped safely but the ship remains partially submerged on its side in St. Simons Sound, Georgia.
oBr57 TIL Toto's single of 'Africa' went platinum in 2017 and 4x platinum as of October this year.