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TIL - Water was probably delivered to Earth from space

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e0P8L TIL that Andy Serkis ( most famous for voicing Gollum in “Lord of the Rings”) voices 26 characters in 21 movies including Supreme Leader Snoke in “Star Wars” and Caesar from “War for the Planet of the Apes”
gAW7 TIL Taco Bell is launching an “upscale” version of their restaurants “to compete with Chipotle.”
0wkKM TIL of the Karaite Jews, an ancient sect hailing from Turkic countries. In 1934, members of the Karaite community asked the Nazis to exempt Karaites from the anti-Semitic laws based on their legal status as Russians, sparing them from the horrors of the Holocaust, despite them being fully Jewish
4l06 TIL that Ernest Hemingway once fired a sub-machine gun at sharks that attacked a tuna he was trying to land; the blood from the bullets caused the sharks to attack even harder
o9wA TIL that a Soviet general, Vasili Blokhin, personally executed over 7,000 Polish prisoners in one month. He used a German pocket pistol for plausible deniability.