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TIL that all lakes in the state of Maryland are man-made

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DrPJ TIL A guy named Ole Worm found evidence that “lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air.”
grar4 TIL: Cyrus the great’s cylinder is the first recognized charter for human rights.
6ElnY TIL that during the women’s gymnastics all-around final at the 2000 Olympics, the vaulting table was accidentally set 5 centimeters too low. Half of the gymnasts had vaulted before organizers fixed the error, and many of them had crashes.
EgVP0 TIL For 15 years during the Cold War, the nuclear launch code for the United States was "00000000"
GV0G TIL 85 percent of Belarusian children are deemed to be Chernobyl victims: they carry “genetic markers” that could affect their health at any time and can be passed on to the next generation