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TIL not only are timeshares usually scams, companies claiming to help extract you from timeshares are often scams

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Y4dG TIL that Millions of Europeans and Russians were captured as slaves by Ottoman and African Barbary pirates. The coastline from Venice to Malaga was largely depopulated.
evJ6 TIL that Isle Royale, the largest island on lake superior, has a lake which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder. So the boulder becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.
9wvoD TIL The concept of using human shields as a weapon of resistance was created by Mahatma Gandhi
1alP TIL According to the comics, Lex Luthor is agitated towards Superman because he thinks Superman contributed towards the balding of his head when he was a child.
nWWXP TIL Glaciers are not the second largest reservoir of water on Earth as previously thought. A 2021 study showed that groundwater is the second largest reservoir of water (at 43.9 million km^3) after Oceans (1.3 billion km^3). Glaciers are a distant third at 158,000 km^3.