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TIL Death Valley (California) is above one of the largest aquifers in the world

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ANaEd TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.
1a6Q4 TIL after divorcing her foreign husband, Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford got him deported by getting her legal team to report him for alleged business fraud. However, after he won child custody, her children were forced to move to France, and now she must travel there to see them.
8a9l8 TIL actor Oliver Reed died during a break from shooting Gladiator after winning a drinking match with British sailors. He "drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey and a few shots of Hennessy" and beat five young sailors at arm wrestling before collapsing.
PY8xw TIL The Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers has a “Fort Knox” vault of Maple Syrup. A barrel is worth about $1,200 or $2.88 per pound which is 10-18 times the value of U.S. crude oil.
XEAdE TIL that all languages follow this law. The second most common word is used 1/2 as much as the most. The third word is used 1/3 the most, and so on and so on for all languages