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TIL that in 2011, a woman drowned and remained at the bottom of a busy Massachusetts public pool for two days, hidden by cloudy water

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VBwNp TIL narrative principle Chekhov's gun states that every element in a story must be necessary e.g., if you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following act it should be fired. Otherwise, don't put it there. Thus, I finally found the right word to express my frustration with Game of Thrones
v1Pl7 TIL about the 1936 soviet movie 'Circus.' A single white mother with a black child flees racism in America & follows the circus to Russia. At its climax, the cast sings to her baby in every language of the USSR.
RWd4 TIL in 1972 a pocket of uranium in Africa was found to have undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for over 100,000 years, making it the only known naturally formed nuclear reactor.
b68P9 TIL the shrimp industry removes the eyes of female shrimp to increase reproduction, calling it "eyestalk ablation."
X09JE TIL head lice is a different species than pubic lice (crabs)