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TIL the world’s oldest pool of water was discovered deep in a Canadian mine. It is 2 billion years old.

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nWlab TIL There were more than 300,000 Christian converts in Japan around 1600. After the failed Shimabara Rebellion led by a Christian samurai, 37,000 Christian rebels and sympathizers got beheaded by the shogunate forces.
rRarx TIL Brad Pitt agreed to do a brief cameo in Deadpool 2 for just the daily minimum rate (less than $1000 per day) plus a cup of coffee hand delivered by Ryan Reynolds.
Xx0r TIL of an armored vehicle prototype invented by Preston Tucker in 1930s. Tucker Tiger, as it was called, was entirely bulletproof, had air conditioning, and a turret that could rotate 360 degrees. Its maximum speed was 114 mph, but it was rejected by the Army because they felt it was too fast.
1KRW TIL for the movie Labyrinth (1986), Jim Henson wanted Sting to play Jareth, the Goblin King. However, he changed his mind after his kids convinced him that David Bowie would have “lasting appeal”.
Z1xB TIL in Nordic mythology, Ratatoskr was a squirrel whose sole job was to carry insulting messages between a great eagle and a dragon at opposite ends of Yggdrasil, the great World Tree