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TIL once 4th largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, has declined to only 10% of its original size since the 1960’s. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters.

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yQL0l TIL there is a fake village in the Netherlands, complete with a fake supermarket, restaurant, and theatre amongst other things, which is actually a care home for dementia sufferers
9KRQ TIL that the British explorer James Cook was so well respected that during the American Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin wrote to all American colonial warships that; upon encounter, to give safe passage to his crew and vessel, and to consider them as ‘common friends to mankind’
GP9E TIL that the individual loops in Froot Loops are actually all the same flavor.
rRagM TIL one large dose of CBD has been found to greatly reduce the pleasantness of smoking cigarettes
OoeN6 TIL that James Cameron, the most successful director in the world, only makes Hollywood movies in order to pay for his complex explorations.