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TIL The Dead Sea Shrinks About 3 Feet Every Year And Will Be Gone In 30 Years.

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wa56 TIL the drink called “punch” has no relation to punching and instead comes from the Sanskrit for “five”, since it was made with five ingredients in India
4X1Xw TIL of Project Pigeon, in which American behaviorist B.F. Skinner attempted to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb during World War II.
yA6l TIL: The white people of South Africa are on genocide watch. About 50 people on average are murdered in South-Africa per day, of which at least 20 of them are whites with a 95% black on white murder rate. White people make up only 9% of South Africa’s population.
x6rm5 TIL that some species of Ammonites (a prehistoric cephalopod) reached 1.8 meters in diameter and weighed close to 1500 kilograms
8a7ya TIL Mohammad Ali successfully talked a suicidal person threatening to jump off a ledge out of going through with it by saying, “you’re my brother! I love you and I wouldn't lie to you ... I want to help you” to this complete stranger in 1981.