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TiL the Mediterranean filled in just 2 years when the Atlantic breached what we know as the straight of Gibraltar.

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MekmA TIL that a young Irishman threw a message in a bottle from the sinking Titanic. He drowned. A year later, the bottle washed up on a beach — just a few miles from his mother’s home in Ireland.
bdQ0 TIL that one man won $6 million in one night from one casino. Don Johnson singlehandedly ruined the Tropicana’s April 2011 revenue through blackjack; he’d already won $9 million at two other casinos. He is now banned from most Atlantic City casinos.
OGBrY TIL scientists made a computer model and concluded that giraffes would perform poorly compared to other mammals and are hence likely to avoid swimming if possible.
kJZ0W TIL that Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth did not play bass on the band's studio recording of "Genius of Love". She suffered a bad hand cramp from overplaying and had to enlist the help of an assistant studio engineer, likely Kendall Stubbs from Compass Point Studios, Bahamas, where the LP was recorded.
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