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TIL that scientists have found a lake believed to be untouched by climate change which they call “God’s Bathtub”

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5VX5r TIL in 1962 an Englishman named Brendon Grimshaw bought a lone island in the Seychelles and settled there for the rest of his life. He planted over 16,000 trees attracting countless species and made it a national park.
gky9 TIL there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
ZpMw4 TIL that in 1884, 630 French Foreign Legionnaires fought 12 000 Chinese troops at the battle of Tuyen Quang, and won.
6QZ TIL criminals use google reviews to rate their incarceration experiences
neZgo TIL that despite what you've seen on TV countless times, you can't revive a flat-lining patient by shocking them. Defibrillation works but reorganizing the heart's electrical activity into a better rhythm, but a flat-lining patient doesn't have any electrical activity to organize.