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TIL an industrial engineering screw up resulted in the entire Colorado River emptying into a California valley over the span of two years. This resulted in a 318 sq mile body of water known as the Salton Sea.

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l7bla TIL Grand Duchess Elizabeth was the Aunt and Sister-in-Law of Tsar Nicholas II. After her husband's assassination in 1905, she joined a convent and devoted her life to the poor, even selling off her own wedding ring. Despite this, she would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
b9EX7 TIL of Project A119 - a US Cold War plan to nuke the moon
VBYbB TIL 'Merrily We Roll Along' (aka The Looney Tunes theme) was originally accompanied by lyrics from its author, comedian Eddie Cantor
4Q5R TIL Finland has been sending expectant mothers free ‘baby boxes’ since the 30’s. The babies sleep in them and are credited with Finland’s world leading low mortality rates
7rd9b TIL Cecil George Edwards, the man arrested while having a "succulent chinese meal", went on his now infamous tirade with hopes of arriving at a lunatic asylum for an easier escape.