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TIL the Amazon pours so much water into the Atlantic that freshwater can be found so far offshore that there isn’t any land in sight.

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wLRp6 TIL Omaha Beach sand is up to 4% microscopic iron fragments from D-Day
kOKRg TIL twins are becoming more common than ever. Around 1915, 1 in every 50 babies born was a twin, a rate of 2%. The rate increased to 3.3% by 2010 (1 in every 30 babies born is a twin). Scientists believe that older woman tend to have more twins and couples tend to start families later nowadays.
N7gL6 Researchers in Sweden have uncovered evidence of a behaviour never seen before in ancient hunter-gatherers: the mounting of decapitated heads onto stakes. The grim discovery challenges our understanding of European Mesolithic culture and how these early humans handled their dead.
mMMo TIL of the “Coffee Cantata”, a comic opera by J.S. Bach about a young woman who drank absurd amounts of coffee to annoy her father, who wouldn’t let her marry
dDLar TIL Friday the 13th has become the busiest day of the year for tattoo artists and has become something of a Black Friday for tattoo shops.