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TIL there is a 145-million-year-old body of seawater beneath Chesapeake Bay

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p8vlQ TIL an unconscious prisoner was declared dead by three doctors before he was discovered to be alive when he started snoring on the autopsy table
wX8J TIL Kodak developed the first digital camera, but kept it secret for fear it would disrupt their film industry. Ultimately this would be their undoing.
GYEBG TIL Aluminum is so expensive to smelt from ore, yet so cheap to recycle, that up to 75% of all aluminum ever mined is still in use today
R5aKl TIL that in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to ban American Football after 19 college students died that year playing the game. In response, 62 colleges and universities met in New York City to discuss rule changes, where they formed the athletic association that would become the NCAA.
oBN5Y TIL that hundreds of hip-hop songs can be traced back to Slick Rick's and Doug E. Fresh's La Di Da Di (1985)