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TIL that Sauron was the lieutenant of an even more powerful dark lord named Melkor

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yV8mJ TIL about Rat Kings, a collection of rats that have their tails intertwined, and they can not be separated. A similar thing has been observed with squirrels.
5VPVn TIL that in 2011, astronomers discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water on Earth, surrounds a huge black hole more than 12 billion light-years away.
OGE8a TIL charging any additional fees for debit cards is illegal in the US. Convenience fees/cash discount price cannot be different from the debit card price.
OGxZ1 TIL a man was killed by a beaver while trying to photograph it. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends, approached it, and the beaver bit the man on the thigh, which severed an artery. Tragically the man's friends were unable to stanch the blood loss.
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