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TIL that since the 1960s, the Aral Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world, has been drying up, leaving hundreds of fishing boats rusting in the desert

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8aj5V TIL 1963 film Charade was accidentally released into the public domain when the filmmakers neglected to add copyright text/symbol when published
neoEr TIL President Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet cult film “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” at least eight times in preparation for his meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, to try and understand the mysterious Russian soul.
jyXv TIL Pakistan has a blasphemy law that doesn’t require corroborating evidence, just the word of one accuser, and has a mandatory death sentence.
n7Yo TIL In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness
46nw TIL that helicopter escapes from prison are not only real but highly successful