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TIL: The Mediterranean Sea has a high salinity because around 5 million years ago it, for not 100% known reasons, dried up for roughly 500,000 years.

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M7NgA TIL that John Hinckley Jr., former attempted assassin of U.S. President Ronald Reagan, has since been released from prison, turned his life around, recovered from his mental illness, announced his own record label, and released his own music to the public.
BrlVe TIL From her very first steps to her adult years, Maya Picasso was an inspiration and muse to her father, who would draw (the drawing of Maya as a newborn is of a rare tenderness), paint and photograph her. Paris’ Gagosian gallery hosted the exhibit "Picasso et Maya: Père et Fille" in 2017
jQJN TIL of the Martha Mitchell effect, where a psychiatrist considers an unbelievable story delusional, but it turns out to be true. Named for the alcoholic wife of Nixon’s attorney general, called mentally ill after reporting illegal behavior by the administration
LAKP TIL Gin and Tonics were created by the British Army to help fight Malaria in India. Quinine, the medicine that fought Malaria, tasted so bad gin was used to make the medicine more drinkable.
eK4 TIL that there used to be a company that you could use to print your business cards on beef jerky.