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TIL that there’s a “dead spot” in the Black Sea where scientists have found ships as old as 1200 years preserved well enough to see chisel marks from original builder.

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RRW9 TIL China has executed at least 14 Billionaires in 8 years between 2003 and 2011.
Meeva Everything, from your attempt to scoop it up to eat it, would be bad.
79mp TIL that the Fertile Crescent A.K.A the Cradle of Civilization is now largely barren, sun-baked clay in many areas, due to human activity
8e9kb TIL There were thirty married astronauts during the Gemini and Apollo programs—all but seven marriages ended in divorce
69MYQ TIL that Andrée de Jongh, the mastermind that led the Comet Line during WWII, was saved from execution because Gestapo officers did not believe that such a small young girl could lead such an operation. The network, consisting of mainly young women, smuggled shot down airmen from Belgium to Spain.