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TIL: Many Major World Cities are About to Run Out of Water
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TIL Christmas was banned in Boston from 1659 to 1681
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TIL Roger Bowen, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the 1970 film MASH, died one day after the death of McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the television adaptation of the film
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TIL the award for 10 consecutive kills with a shotgun in Halo 3 was titled “Cheneymania!” before it was changed to “Open Season!”
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TIL Canada had an ancient glacial lake the size of the Black Sea, contained by an ice sheet. When the ice sheet broke ~9000 yrs ago, the lake drained and dumped enough water into the Atlantic to raise sea levels by 3-9 ft, cool the entire Northern Hemisphere by ~3C, and turn Britain into an island.
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TIL Black Widow females rarely eat the male after mating, the misconception comes from labs where the male is trapped in the same cage as the female.