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TIL In under 20 years the Aral Sea has shrunk to ten percent of its original size and is so salty that barely any life form remains. The Russians were taught to believe that the sea was an “error of nature” and therefore pointless

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pxDO TIL Jamie Lee Curtis saw a photo of Christopher Guest in Rolling Stone magazine and declared to a friend “Oh, I’m going to marry that guy.” She did so five months later. They’re still married today, 31 years later.
kJGA1 TIL that between 1970 and 1997 so many post office workers snapped and killed their coworkers that a new slang term "going postal" became a new slang term for becoming exceptionally angry
9pBr TIL in November 2006 Denise Richards confronted two paparazzi who were photographing her from a balcony, threw their computers off the balcony, which struck two elderly women in wheelchairs.
noEY TIL that in 2004, a F-16 accidentally strafed a New Jersey school with cannon fire on a training mission.
8anNL TIL The "California Route" to the summit of Mt Fitz Roy in Patagonia was first climbed in 1968 by five American hippies who called themselves The Fun Hogs. One of them later founded Patagonia (originally called Chouinard, his last name), and another founded The North Face (in '64).