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TIL that there are no natural lakes in Maryland

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jNDkn TIL Scientists made light travel at 17 meters per second by having light travel through a gas at nearly zero kelvin.
0wgpR TIL that stuck inside on a rainy day in 1816, writers Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to a ghost writing contest. These stories later turned into Frankenstein (Shelley) and The Vampyre (Polidori), the latter of which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
nBro TIL During WWII a fully grown Reindeer lived on a British submarine, ate a navigation chart and got so fat that it couldn’t get back out.
M7wVa TIL that Lake Baikal has as much water as all great lakes combined but is only slightly bigger than Lake Erie by area.
epxJg TIL that Leonardo da Vinci did not begin working on the Mona Lisa until he was in his 50s.