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

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a480 TIL that after being read The Declaration of Independence by George Washington, a crowd pulled down an equestrian statue of King George in New York City and used the lead to make musket balls.
nWBoo TIL that Lea Thompson who played Marty McFly's mother in Back to the Future, was only 10 days older than Michael J. Fox.
ADMnw TIL Scientists have claimed that The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament could all be explained. Toxic algae stained the Nile blood red, which forced frogs to leave the water, leading to insects and a volcanic eruption trigged more plagues
E1KBw TIL that the Fallout series is considered a spiritual successor to a 1988 game Interplay made called Wasteland.
LQrJV TIL that there is a Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge, named for its benefactor, antiquarian John Disney.