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TIL Every year approximately 16 million gallons of oil runs off pavement into streams, rivers and eventually oceans in the United States. This is more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.

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yVOMV TIL of the lost civilization of Tartessos in modern Spain, who's language is unclassified. The location is unknown but is thought to have been near a giant estuary that turned into the Guadalquivir Marshes. Some to speculate Tartessos to be the biblical Tarshish or even Atlantis.
JkdV TIL “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch Couch used to drive himself to school at the age of thirteen. When the head of the school questioned that practice, his father threatened to buy the school.
4ljJ TIL Coca-Cola and PepsiCo engineer their soda cans to be exceptionally loud when opened, in hopes of “triggering” others in the nearby vicinity to crave a drink.
4XrjR TIL about Newgrange, "an exceptionally grand passage tomb built [in Ireland] during the Neolithic period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids."
NblE TIL Henrietta Leavitt discovered how to measure astronomical distances to stars and nebula (now known to be other galaxies). Her research allowed her employer, Edwin Hubble to later discover the expanding universe. He often stated she deserved a Nobel Prize for her work.