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TIL the inventor of the glow stick didn’t know glow sticks were used for parties until 2013

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DQ15p TIL that since the 1960s, the Aral Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world, has been drying up, leaving hundreds of fishing boats rusting in the desert
4Xdeb TIL the FBI kept a list of D&D players as part of its hunt for the Unabomber
b6exp TIL The US Marshals recovered North Carolina’s copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights in 2003 via a sting operation after it was stolen from the State Capitol by a union soldier following the civil war.
yn0M TIL after invading Greece and receiving the submission of other key city-states, Philip II of Macedon sent a message to Sparta: “If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.” The Spartan ephors replied with a single word: “If.” Phillip and his son Alexander never tried to invade.
69MG8 TIL Sherpas mitochondria operates more efficiently in low oxygen environments than non-Sherpa ethnicities. This adaptation likely helps them thrive in the low-oxygen environment of the Himalayas.