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TIL when ice sheets collide, they can form mountains at the boundary, just like tectonic plates

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BePr TIL a 7-year-old girl recognized herself on a milk carton as a missing kid. She might never have been rescued, except her abductor bought the carton and cut out the image, giving it to her to save. A friend saw it and she was reunited with her father.
D1bxP TIL that a professor who ran a long running study on a pitch drop missed every single drop. One in 1977 because he went home tired, another in 1988 because he went to get a cup of tea, and in 2000 due to a malfunctioned webcam. When the next drop finally fell in 2014, he had died 8 month earlier
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