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TIL In 2011 3-D mapping revealed an ancient Mayan city under a Guatemalan rain forest

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DQ4DV TIL a monument for Benadict Arnold exists at Saratoga National Park, calling him the "most brilliant soldier of the Continental Army", but does not explicitly mention him by name.
8g44 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients of nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater, and “viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor, a gallon of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.”
Oor7X TIL in 1987, 18 month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well in a backyard in Texas. CNN covered the rescue effort, which took 56 hours, and the story found worldwide attention. In 2011, McClure, aged 25, received a trust fund of donations from around the world. She has no memory of the event.
R7Zk1 TIL that a guy stole £26 million in gold, killed a policeman who was investigating him and got acquitted of the murder before going to jail for the robbery, then he got released after seven years only to kill a guy in a road rage incident and get sentenced to life.
e095g TIL of Chinese assassin, Shi Jianqiao. In the Warlord Era (1916-1928) when Shi was 19, her warlord father was defeated & executed by a rival, Sun Chuanfang. Shi spent her 20s tracking Sun down, killing him in 1935. Chinese society was so moved by her act of filial revenge that the court pardoned her