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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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N9kM TIL that Snoop Dogg has a charity to stop young kids from getting hooked on drugs or getting mixed up with gangs.
ZpawD TIL in 1967 you could buy a Ford Mustang in 47 different colors
wL5lM TIL that before he became President, Grover Cleveland had an affair with a woman which resulted in her becoming pregnant, and in order to cover up the scandal he had her committed & her child sent to an orphanage.
Ojxa TIL of Angle-grinder man. A superhero dressed anonymous vigilante who would offer a free wheel clamp removal service in London and Kent.
Zvwp TIL maintain morale, WWI wartime censors blocked early reports of the 1918 Influenza epidemic in their countries. However, papers were free to report the epidemic’s effects in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit—thus the pandemic’s nickname, the Spanish flu.