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TIL of internal tides, large waves within the ocean that move at the boundaries between water layers and are major actors of heat transfer in the oceanic circulation

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OGZj6 TIL that about 30 million Americans can trace their ancestry back to the 132 passengers and crew of the Mayflower, which landed in (what would become) Massachusetts, in 1620
QNxve TIL that a city in Turkmenistan was once the biggest city in the world, until the entire population was massacred by the Mongols.
GYNgE TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer who accidentally shot and killed himself whilst demonstrating how the victim could've accidentally shot himself
a8gpL TIL that a town in New York did not concede the Civil War and rejoin the Union until the 1940s.
0d4Qv TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name