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TIL the earliest known maps are of the stars, not the earth.

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9YOG TIL that there is a shipwreck in the Thames Estuary containing at least 1,400 tonnes of TNT high explosives including 2,000 cases of cluster bombs and if it exploded could be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever and create a small tsunami.
grmRy TIL before becoming an infamous preacher, young Jim Jones sold pet spider monkeys door to door for $29
4km1w TIL of Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, which is larger than Mercury, has a liquid metal core, and is presumed to have more subsurface water than all of Earth's oceans combined
GApxE TIL that in ancient Rome, there was a vending machine that dispensed holy water. Pilgrims would insert a coin and receive a measured amount of sacred water. It was one of the earliest recorded examples of a coin-operated machine!
9wWXX TIL 13-year-old BlueScuti became the first human to reach the "kill screen" for the NES version of Tetris after a 40-minute 1,511 line performance. And until just a few years ago, the Tetris community at large had assumed that it was functionally impossible for someone to get much past 290 lines.