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TIL that the "Lost City of Atlantis" was invented by the philosopher Plato, as a fake enemy for Athens that lost favour of the gods and was sunk in to the sea.

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lo6xV TIL in 2017, a 17-year-old YouTube star insulted a notorious Mexican drug lord. Few days later, four men armed with “long weapons” stormed into a bar and opened fire at a table where the Youtuber was sitting and executed the teen, riddling him with 15 bullets.
KOZbG TIL The Earth loses hundreds of tons of oxygen to space. This happens at places near the poles, called polar cusps where the solar wind can collide with Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily the process will take billions of years to strip away the atmosphere completely.
yQ19e TIL after Portuguese explorers completed the first sea route to India in 1498 and disembarked in Calicut, the first people they met were two Spanish-speaking Tunisian merchants who said: "The Devil take you! What brought you here?". They responded: "We came in search of Christians and of spices".
OXm7 TIL Actress Candace Bergen’s father left $10,000 to his ventriloquist dummy and zero to her. His will said the dummy had “been my constant companion…from whom I have never been separated even for a day.” (The dummy had his own bedroom which was larger than Candace’s).
X00bj TIL peanut butter can glow in the dark. Due to its phenolic compounds, the protective agents found in plant-based foods, that absorb light in the ultra-violet spectrum and glow in the dark.