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TIL that the Sumerian God Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by ejaculating into dry riverbeds

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kMv5 TIL that the name Imogen is probably just a spelling error that Shakespeare made but became a real name
wol9Y TIL Wesley Snipes and Ryan Reynolds never hated each other
bNxZ TIL China has 1/5 of the worlds population, but only 7% of the planets fresh water and after ignoring the environment during its economic surge over the past few decades, over 80% of its groundwater in its major river basins is unsafe for humans
pYNvb TIL that the youngest drill sergeant in the history of the United States Marine Corps was Donald Dunagan, the voice of Bambi.
W7xk4 TIL of the Church War of Jonesboro, a bloody feud in early 1930s Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Things got out of hand so bad, the Arkansas National Guard had to be called in.