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TIL This Alkaline African Lake Turns Animals into Stone

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pYJMe TIL Lina Khan, the head of the FTC, was nominated for the position just 4 years after graduating law school
X0Mv6 TIL the Phil Collins album No Jacket Required is named after an incident at a Chicago restaurant where Collins was denied admittance. Collins later appeared on TV denouncing the restaurant who in turn sent him a sport coat and an apology, saying he could come back wearing whatever he wanted.
9wJwD TIL a pregnancy requires 49,753 dietary calories — the equivalent of 199 Snickers candy bars each containing 250 calories/
dDKV7 TIL there’s a Hitchcock Barbie; a version of the doll dressed as actor Tippi Hedren from The Birds which even comes with detachable attacking birds.
5VB19 TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case