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TIL that although Antarctica is overall declining in mass due to melting ice, East Antarctica is actually gaining volume.

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jNZaX TIL that when Isaac Newton was 20, he compiled a list of his sins. They included: "threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them", "peevishness with my mother". and "wishing death and hoping it to some".
P104Z TIL when Stevie Ray Vaughan was once out with his mom, he told her: “I don’t mind the fans, but I wish they wouldn’t stop me when I’m with you”. She replied, “If you weren’t wearing that hat, maybe they wouldn’t recognize you!”. There was no distinction between SRV’s on-stage and off-stage attire.
pwbA TIL: That in 1933, former President George W. Bush’s Grandfather; Prescott Bush led a group of wealthy industrialists in a campaign to topple the US Gov’t. during the FDR Administration and install a Fascist Dictatorship.
JwvQ TIL that the Scumbag Girlfriend is a hooker in germany (don’t ask how I found out)
xV6r5 TIL that in early August 2017, a people smuggler off the coast of Yemen deliberately drowned at least 29 teenage migrants. The average age of the migrants was 16.