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TIL that there are no natural lakes in Maryland

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woGY TIL Omar bin Laden (Osama’s son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because “Omar failed to provide his father’s permanent address”
AoYo TIL David Cross said that working on the third installment of Alvin and the Chipmunks was “the most unpleasant experience of his professional life.”
d8JY9 TIL that in Idaho there is an anonymous "Secret Santa" that has for the last several years given away $500,000 per year in cash and gifts to people that do amazing things in the community around them.
5VrvD TIL James Beck was a prominent art historian who criticized the restoration of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo and the Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. He believed that restoring an artwork risked altering it and instead advocated for conservation of artworks in their present state.
nWrZP TIL that networks were created to help German Nazis to flee Europe after World War II. Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann made it to South America using the system. The Escape routes are called ratlines because of the way rats cling together to save themselves on a sinking ship.