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TIL there is a giant crack in Ethiopia that will eventually form the Earth’s next ocean.

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woxOE TIL that questions have been raised about the legitimacy of Queen Victoria and that she may have been the result of an affair with a non-royal. This has revolved around the hereditary haemophilia that she was the carrier for, and that hadn’t been detected in the royal bloodline previously.
QpE6 TIL The Shafer Commission, after 5 years of research, concluded that cannabis did not cause widespread danger to society. It recommended using social measures other than criminalisation to discourage use. The Nixon administration did not implement the recommendations.
BRrW TIL that in 2010, Lou Reed and his wife held a high frequency concert for dogs.
WklYo TIL: The original, unratified, 13th amendment to the US Constitution would have stripped US citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from an "emperor, king, prince or foreign power."
loGeK TIL that sailors slept in hammocks, as they stayed well balanced even if the ship was in motion. The Royal Navy formally adopted the sling hammock in 1597 much after Columbus discovered them in the Bahamas. Sailors got so accustomed to hammocks that they even took them back on leave.