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TIL The French Prime Minister proposed uniting France and Britain into a single country in 1957

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j69ap TIL Lake Baikal contains 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water (more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined)
gLlA TIL that the Sun’s emits more green visible light than any other color but we still see the color mixture as white. It only appears yellow because shorter wavelength colors such as blue scatter in the atmosphere, making the sky blue.
l7n1B TIL that after writing Pet Sematary, Stephen King hid it away and intended to never publish it, believing it was too disturbing. It was only published because his contract with a former publisher required him to give them one more novel. He considers it the scariest thing he's ever written.
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