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TIL Lenin spoke at Laura (daughter of Karl) Marx’s funeral

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OogvR TIL Jules Verne's shelved 1863 novel "Paris in the Twentieth Century" predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet. His publisher deemed it pessimistic and lackluster. It was discovered in 1989 and published 5 years later.
lomZN TIL an extremely rare, strong cyclonic storm resembling a hurricane formed over Lake Huron in 1996. It was the first time such a storm has ever been recorded forming over the great lakes region.
Mm97 TIL because of its very low freezing point, whale oil saw widespread use in the aerospace industry.
K8rR TIL that a lost diver in Lake Tahoe was found 17 years later perfectly preserved. (The family is going to have an open casket…)
VMkLG TIL that when a whale farts, the resulting bubble is so big that a full-grown horse could fit inside