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TIL Earth’s mantle holds several oceans worth of water.

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VMxlQ TIL that the Tony Awards are named after an actress, Antoinette Perry.
P1KOE TIL: The first production straight-six was developed by the Dutch company Spyker and made its debut in the 1903 race car dubbed, rather uncreatively, 60 HP.
9o9r TIL That obsidian knives are so sharp they cut on a cellular level. Due to this, when used in the medical field, incisions made with the blade heal faster with less scarring.
m14VO TIL that in the United States, it is illegal to remove or destroy a nest that has eggs in it or young birds still dependent on it for survival. It is also illegal for anyone to keep a nest they take out of a tree or find on the ground unless they have a permit.
69b9Q TIL in 2022 an 18-yr-old student, who did genealogical research as a hobby, cracked the unsolved 1964 murder of a 9-yr-old girl in Hazleton, PA. He researched for 18 months & created 50 complete family trees to find a connection to Hazleton which eventually led him to zero in on culprit James Forte