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TIL there’s an “endless wave” in the Amazon that can be surfed for ten kilometers or more.

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enpn TIL Ervil Morrell Labaron (Aka the Mormon Manson), in the 1970’s and 80’s, justified the killing of 25 men, women, and children using the Mormon principle of blood atonement.
nAMd TIL that in WW2, US Ships used rubble from the English city of Bristol as ballast for the journey home to New York. They dumped the rubble on the bank of the East River, where Waterside Plaza now stands.
nWwJd TIL of Edgar Nollner, who, upon his death in 1999, was the longest surviving musher of The Serum Run - a mission to deliver diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled to an Alaskan town of Nome. During his later years, Edgar was married twice, had 23 children and over 200 grandchildren.
GYJAE TIL that wildly successful country singer Marty Robins of “El Paso” fame also had a moderately successful 13 year side-career as a self funded NASCAR driver
9YK9X TIL that human subjects have been shown to grossly underestimate exponential growth. "Neither special instructions about the nature of exponential growth nor daily experience with growth processes enhanced the extrapolations."