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TIL Wedgwood Rock - an enormous erratic rock in someone's front yard in Seattle

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N7W96 TIL of Aeroplankton, the atmospheric analogue to oceanic plankton that deposit many millions of airborne viruses and bacteria every day on every square meter around the planet.
KYOXR TIL in 1272 the theft of a cow in the town of Ciney led to a 6 years war and thousand of death
jNWrR TIL Victor Hugo's father was a general in Napoleon's army. Victor's 1st novel was published when he was only 20 and earned him a royal pension from King Louis XVIII. It then took him a full 17 years to write Les Misérables.
kOKLd TIL The whole reason Hansel and Gretel were lost in the forest is because their stepmother intentionally abandoned them there
B5PD TIL Korea has had underfloor heating for thousands of years.