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TIL there is a lake that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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N7WZ1 TIL the funeral of Japanese musician Hide was attended by 50,000 fans, not including the 10,000 who attended his televised wake. His death resulted in numerous suicides including one at his funeral. One person died in a car crash and around 200 people were hospitalised due to exhaustion and heat.
4XOW6 TIL The East India Company controlled its own army, which by 1800 comprised some 200,000 soldiers, more than twice the membership of the British Army at that time. The army was used to carry out officially sanctioned looting within Indian States, along with forced over-taxation.
9Ygj7 TIL There is no left brain and right brain divide. People are not divided on the left-brain and the right-brain thinkers: those who are logical and analytical vs. those who are intuitive and creative. Scientific research has shown that the popular left brain / right brain story doesn't hold water.
OGxaX TIL In 1952 a doctor in France released a deadly virus to kill rabbits on his estate, which then killed 90% of France's rabbits within two years
VM1mZ TIL: Dr. King's mother was also shot to death after him, while she was in Ebenezer Baptist Church