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TIL that a blood-red slurry of two-million year old microbes is pouring out of an Antarctic Glacier

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kJxa5 TIL Lucifers was slang for early matches, which smelled like sulphur and "could ignite explosively"
PYdDE TIL That George Michael donated the song "Jesus to a child" royalties to the charity ChildLine [a child counselling charity] in secret
51XD TIL there is a small town in Australia which has a decommissioned submarine on display in a park, and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ visit to the country community members knitted yellow wool squares to cover the entire sub.
JQp1 TIL in 1966, two American teenagers found two child mummies in a cave in Mexico, smuggled them back to California, and ditched them in a friend’s garage until the friend’s mother discovered the mummies 14 years later.
J7al TIL The Chilling Effect - If a society knows that they are constantly being monitored, it effects imagination and innovation and eventually the society reaches a point of stagnation