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TIL At a depth of almost a mile, Lake Baikal in Russia is the deepest lake in the world. It is also the clearest and oldest lake while containing 20% of the worlds fresh water.

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kGOm TIL when the band Korn played “Falling Away From Me” on the South Park episode entitled “Korn’s Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery,” it was actually the debut of the single, which then went on to be one of their most popular singles.
4jow TIL in 2013 there was a Japanese reality show called “Orgasm Wars”, in which a gay man tries to make a straight man climax by giving him a blowjob for 40 minutes
7rReM TIL that a Maine restaurant will only take reservations by mail and not a phone, email or app after Boston Globe’s food critic once declared it “best Maine restaurant you may never be able to eat at.” Your sole option: snail-mailing them a letter with your name and contact info.
6EQmm TIL that in 2008, Tim McLean was beheaded and cannibalised while riding a bus in Canada. The perpetrator, Vince Li, spent seven years in mental hospital, and was released in 2015, to a group home. He was granted a discharge in 2017. One of the first officers on the scene later committed suicide.
0Gbj TIL that in Hollywood, Christopher Nolan along with Steven Speilberg are among the last holdouts who shoot on film in an industry that’s moved to digital.