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TIL that thermal expansion of ocean water accounts for 1/3 of sea level rise

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grrX9 TIL Aeschylus, one of the greatest tragedians of ancient Greece, regarded as the father of the genre itself, died after a bird dropped a tortoise on his head, thinking it was a rock to break it open.
gMpey TIL about triplets that were deliberately separated at birth by their adoption agency. After investigative journalist, Lawrence Wright, looked into the matter, it was revealed the triplets were part of a scientific experiment by Dr. Peter B. Neubauer.
OZj7 TIL the CIA once dosed one of their biological warfare scientists drink with LSD. The scientist decided he wanted to quit germ warfare and dedicate his life to something else. Nine days later he was thrown out of the 10th story of a hotel.
rNWJ1 TIL about the Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves, an all women crime syndicate in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that specialized in shoplifting and pretending to be maids and robbing the wealthy families who hired them.
vPYr TIL R.L. Stine, the author of the “Goosebumps” children’s books, also wrote the novelization of the film “Spaceballs”