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TIL that today, the true source of the Amazon River, the world’s largest river, is still widely disputed

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Br66k TIL, a "holocaust" was a sacrificial religious ceremony practiced in ancient Judaism, wherein an animal was sacrificed to god, being entirely consumed by fire. The word is from a Greek translation of the Old Testament.
4kenN TIL the current head of the Tokugawa samurai family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years as an isolationist shogunate, grew up in the US and married a Vietnamese woman
wX0M TIL there’s a unknown object in the nearby galaxy m82 that started sending out radio waves and the emission does not look like anything seen anywhere in the universe before
d8BZr TIL: In 1928 the third richest man in the world disappeared from his private airplane midflight.
Ovg4 TIL That Transformers the Movie (1986) starred the voice acting of Leonard Nimoy and Orson Welles