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8a8YZ TIL that the largest lake in the world is also the oldest: Lake Baikal, Siberia. It contains 20% of the Earth's fresh surface water, and is 25 million years old.
MeAdV TIL Dan Aykroyd has Tourette's and Asperger's and was born with webbed toes and two different colored eyes. He also has strange obsessions with law enforcement and ghosts, which later led to the idea for Ghostbusters.
4XjyJ TIL that BBC's documentary series "Human Planet" was riddled with faked and staged scenes including a segment where Venezuelan children ate tarantulas in a film studio.
0wV9R TIL that in the mid-1970s, several years after having left The Monkees, musician Peter Tork worked as a high school teacher in Los Angeles, where he taught music, social studies, math, French, and history, and also coached baseball.
R7B9 TIL that there are still 3.5 Million dial up AOL users