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yrmJ TIL the river Congo is at one point 8 MILES wide
yQApJ TIL Bill Miner, an American bank robber from the early 1900's, is reputed to have been the originator of the phrase "Hands up!"
E1mNW TIL, it's estimated that there are 6,000 shipwrecks distributed across all of the Great Lakes.
4XPkX TIL that a thermos works because there is a vacuum between the walls of the container, limiting the transfer of heat to or from its contents.
XEelE TIL That John Chrysostomos is one of the people responsible for interpreting Sodom as a place of sodomy, instead of just a place of inhospitatality, which was the traditional interpretation before him.