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TIL Google became more valuable than Russia’s entire stock market back in December 2014

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Y7pKG TIL that the creator of the first video game, π˜›π˜¦π˜―π˜―π˜ͺ𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 π˜›π˜Έπ˜°, was also a physicist who worked on the manhattan project.
Bx6L TIL there is a waterfall known as “The Devil’s Kettle” where the water vanishes in a pothole, people have thrown dyes, logs and other things into it and have been unable to find where it goes.
45Ro TIL there is a group of wolves in British Columbia aptly called the “sea wolves” that gets most of its food from the sea, and will even swim up to 8 miles to reach islands for food.
0ayy TIL that Robert Ballard, the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, was secretly funded by the US Navy which wanted him to find their two sunken nuclear submarines first
XdLr TIL In one day of heavy fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad, a local railway station changed hands from Soviet to German control and back again 14 times in 6 hours