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TIL 52% of the posts the make the front page of Reddit have been submitted at least once before.

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d8AYr TIL Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a remnant of a much larger lake that drained in a single, catastrophic event 14,000 years ago.
DQ1WJ TIL In 1962 the French Defense Minister and Minister of Scientific Research were accidentally exposed to nuclear fallout. A subteranean nuclear bomb test in Béryl failed and the minister of defence described it as, 'a kind of gigantic blowtorch flame that started exactly horizontal in our direction'
OZk1 TIL that to prevent the Nazis from discovering two fellow scientist’s gold Nobel prizes, Niels Bohr had them dissolved in aqua regia. They were then stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was extracted and re-cast by the Nobel Foundation
P0an TIL that brown recluse spiders are rarely aggressive. In 2001, a massive infestation of over 2,000 brown recluse spiders was found in a 19th-century-built Kansas house that was occupied by 4 people, and no envenomations occurred.
1bJW TIL Dr.Pepper was released in 1885, one year before Coca-Cola