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TIL: Scientists have found evidence indicating a huge underground reservoir that holds three times as much water as Earth’s Oceans

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0wWEj TIL that filmmaker Ralph Bakshi grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and got his mother's permission to attend the local segregated school with his friends. The school called the police and, afraid whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending, expelled him
k8Bd TIL Thomas Edison was a jealous asshole. He was so jealous of George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla that he would publicly electrocute animals to prove how bad Alternating Current was. Edison jumped at the chance to publicly electrocute Topsy the elephant at The Luna Park Zoo.
Zo9o TIL The platypus is actually not the only surviving member of its biological family. There is a small hedgehog like spiked ant-eater called a “Echidna” that is the only other surviving member of the same biological order. It is also the only other surviving mammal that lays eggs.
gM04W TIL 80 to 90 percent of high school graduates in Singapore are myopic. The same is true in China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea— all places where kids now spend far more time hunched over a desk or computer than did previous generations. Half the world could need glasses by 2050
jNyxM TIL only less than 2% of the uranium in Little Boy, the bomb that was dropped onto Hiroshima, actually fissioned. This was still enough to kill 66,000 people and have a fatal blast radius of 1.3km.