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kOwXd TIL that the Aral Sea has been nearly fully drained by human irrigation and that this has happened before. Over 600 years ago the Mongols drained the lake too an even lower level than today.
6eKJ TIL Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the wife of the creator of Star Trek, played the nurse on then original series, played Deanna Troi’s mother on TNG, voiced all the computer on Star Trek, and her body is being launched into space in 2014.
0drly TIL about Limnic eruption; a very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of asphyxiating wildlife, livestock, and humans.
G7yE TIL King Zog of Albania was the only national leader in modern times to return fire during an assassination attempt.
8apmK TIL that in 1937 a newspaper published a full-page map predicting Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor