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TIL Bermuda doesn't have any sources of fresh water but is among the most densely populated countries on Earth. .

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N7O0N TIL George Washington was referred to in Algonquian as Conotocarious, a term meaning “Devourer of Cities”. He inherited the name from his great-grandfather, who ordered a massacre on five chieftains during a diplomatic parley in Bacon’s Rebellion.
kGa1 TIL scientists accidentally killed world’s oldest animal at age 507
LkaLV TIL Jerry Orbach, who played Lennie Briscoe on the original Law & Order and voiced Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, was diagnosed with cancer less than 2 years into Law & Order. Despite being diagnosed more than a decade before his death, his disease was not publicly known until weeks before death.
8ar14 TIL of the Circumcellions, a 4th century Christian sect. They believed that the greatest Christian virtue was martyrdom, so they attacked random people with clubs while praising God in the hopes that they would be killed by their victims.
ZN1R TIL William Lear, Founder of the Lear Jet Corporation, named one of his daughters Crystal Shanda Lear