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

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78lOM TIL A California drug dealer fled with 60 pounds of meth from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office after a sting operation failed, the undercover investigators attempted to identify traffickers and met with a suspect. After the transaction, the suspect fled at high speeds.
PeG TIL The fake flames on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney are so convincing that the Anaheim Fire Department requested that they be automatically turned off in case of fire so firefighters can fight the real blaze and not waste time battling artificial ones.
D179v TIL a blind and partially deaf man regained his sight and hearing when he was struck by lighting while out chasing his pet chicken
wLaWE TIL that there is a 2013 American independent, surrealist, psychological, horror film called "Escape From Tomorrow" that was largely filmed at Walk Disney World and Disneyland without permission from The Walt Disney Company
JYNjv TIL when Adolf Eichmann was tried in Israel for his actions in the Holocaust, it was necessary to modify Israeli law to allow a team of foreign lawyers to defend him, since no Israeli lawyer would.