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TIL the Earth's water is older than the sun
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TIL There was a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus who was responsible for the death of 6 people during his robbery and getaway. When he was caught and thrown in jail, nearly 2,000 people showed up, pushed past the guards, dragged him out of the jail and hanged him.
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TIL that Louis Armstrong, an influential jazz figure, didn't receive formal musical training until he was arrested for firing a pistol at age 11. In there, the music teacher, Peter Davis, taught him how to play the bugle and cornet. In retrospect, Louis said that was when "me and music got married."
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TIL The Wisconsin River used to flow "backwards" into the Great Lakes basin instead of into the Mississippi River.
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TIL about the Fundamental Attribution Error, a concept that describes how we blame others when bad things happen to them, but blame the external situations when bad things happen to us.
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TIL swamp coolers are nigh useless in swamps or other high-humidity locales, since they work via evaporative cooling