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TIL 15% of searches on Google each day have never been searched before.

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XxjR TIL as a preteen while horseback riding, Bryan Cranston and his counsin encountered Charles Manson, one year before the Tate-LaBianca murders
WkJwB TIL only one person is known to have survived a lynching in the United States. His name was James Cameron and he went on to found America’s Black Holocaust Museum.
XN5r TIL more than 12 billion light years away there is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
OGkDR TIL that All Quiet on the Western Front had a sequel. Although the first book's protagonist dies at the end, the Road Back focuses on the return of his demoralized comrades to a ruined German society.
E6Zo TIL there is a ~11,000 sq ft underground vault on a Norwegian Island that “aims at safeguarding the world’s most important plant genetic resources for food and agriculture with a maximum level of security” free of charge.