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TIL that in 1905, 13 year old Ben Sands discovered an underground lake in Tennessee

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yjNM TIL: Earthworms are 82% protein, rich in Omega 3, and pair well with cumin and curry
l7KBN TIL in 1791 at the Battle of Wabash, approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army was destroyed in one day by Native American forces.
n0BP TIL-By definition, moonshine is illegally made and is not just another type of alcohol. It tends to be illegally made whiskey.
e0Ad6 TIL when George Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot dead his father commented "I am not surprised at all. I've expected it for quite some time." The party claimed the body over the parents, but when they wore swastikas at the funeral, the state cremated his body instead.
d9Rr TIL the Kaaba was built in 2130 BC and was a site of pilgrimage for 2,700 years before the rise of Islam, including for Arabic Christians and Pagans