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TIL Roughly 500 Million Tons of Sediment are Deposited in the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River Every Year

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KObrJ TIL that in 1906, The Daily Mail hired novelist William Le Queux to write a story of the most likely path for a hypothetical German invasion of England. When that path went mostly through areas with low 'Daily Mail' readership, they ordered it rewritten to more directly impact their existing readers
py84 TIL Scooby-Doo was a triplet who had five brothers total and one sister. His sister is the mother of his nephew, Scrappy-Doo.
V7em TIL CERN Data Centres process over 1 petabyte of data everyday! upto 10gb a second!
x6Vn1 TIL about project plowshare, a US program to find peaceful uses for nuclear weapons including excavating dig sites using nuclear weapons
oBlEK TIL Nero, Roman emperor, had a husband, castrated him and had him appear in public as his wife