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TIL that Lake Champlain was officially the sixth Great Lake for only about 3 weeks.

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oRnVo TIL Astatine is the rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth with even its "most-stable" isotope having a half-life of around 8 hours! A sample of the pure element cant be assembled as it would be instantly vaporised by the heat of its own Radioactivity! ( Astatos is Greek word for 'unstable' )
1aY6P TIL about Robert W. Patten (1832-1913), an American eccentric who moved to Seattle and became locally famous for his outrageous claims and umbrella hat
DQPpe TIL Ethan Zuckerman, the man who created pop-up ads, has said sorry to the world for inventing one of the most detested forms of online advertising.
DJWV TIL Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue full of joke science, like one paper that said men die before women because they are stupid. But years later these articles are cited by scientists as real, and this is causing a lot of problems.
AQ9o TIL that during WW2 an American pilot fell 20,000 feet without a parachute before smashing through the glass roof of a train station. He survived and lived to 82.