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TIL that the Gulf of Mexico is supposedly now “The gulf of USA” 😐- super late to this

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dDnKr TIL Microsoft considered using a photo called "Red Moon Desert" as the default wallpaper for Windows XP. It was taken by Charles O'Rear, who also took the "Bliss" photo ultimately chosen to be the default. Microsoft changed their mind after testers compared "Red Moon Desert" to buttocks.
dDwd8 TIL About Hart Island. Located in Long Island Sound the island has seen many uses including as a POW camp, as an anti-aircraft missile battery site and a drug rehab facility. However it's primary fame is as NYC's Potter's Field with an estimated one million burials having taken place there.
VByvD TiL On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption of carbon dioxide at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
kJZ7 TIL that there was a Hungarian serial killer who murdered 24 women and stored them in giant metal drums he kept on his property. He avoided capture in 1916 and was never seen again.
epd4D TIL that the lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott, was asked what it was like to be Black and Irish and he likened it to a "Pint of Guiness!"