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TIL There is a boiling river in Peru that kills everything that falls into it

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mBDx TIL Cristiano Ronaldo bought his agent a whole Greek Island as a wedding present
0dZ1A TIL that emergency and civil defense sirens are called such because an early model could make sound underwater, like the seaborn sirens of Greek mythology
VMeOp TIL that the majority of modern British and Irish are descended from the people who first settled the islands after the Ice Age. All the later invasions by Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans did little to change the islanders’ DNA.
bG6a TIL that a NASA astronaut waited 19 years to fly in space. Don Lind was selected in 1966 but was chosen for canceled missions, or as backup for missions; he said, “I was backing up two of the most depressingly healthy people you can imagine.” Lind finally flew on the space shuttle in 1985.
EgOGd TIL a man named Charles Steinlauf invented a four person bicycle that his family used. It also included a place for his wife to operate her sewing machine while they went for a ride.