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TIL the first stable marine aquarium was invented by British marine biologist & zoologist, Lady Anna Thynne built the first stable and sustained marine aquarium in 1846

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XERVr TIL that 6 million pounds of space dust settles on earth's surface every year.
gE8A TIL that the first person killed on September 11th was an Israeli special operations veteran and MIT graduate student who immediately attempted to stop the hijacking of Flight 11.
wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.
PX8E TIL 15 girls perished in a school fire in Saudi Arabia because morality police outside would not let them exit because they weren’t wearing a veil.
nebG7 TIL: when St. Jerome translated the Bible to common Latin, he made the forbidden fruit an apple as a pun.