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TIL that there’s a lake in Africa that turns animals into stone

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loaNG TIL President Lyndon Johnson an owner of the Aphicar loved playing pranks on his passengers. It involved barrelling the vehicle down a hill into a lake and exclaiming to his passengers that the brakes had malfunctioned, while they had no idea the car was designed to float in water.
1ar6r TIL that before casting John Travolta as Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino invited him to his apartment (which was the same exact apartment Travolta lived in when he first got his start) to play a vintage "Welcome Back Kotter" board game.
P1p5O TIL: Telecommunication companies participate in each countries' "spectrum auction" in which they bid on the right to use specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum for a time period. In the US, the FCC has raised over $60 billion from the bids so far.
mx6No TIL Sailors from 1700-1980 used distillation of sea water to create safe drinking water and current navy fleets can desalinate more than a million of gallons of water a day and be used in times of drought on land.
5VL08 TIL That people have been tracking the average amount the Tooth Fairy pays for a lost tooth, called the Tooth Fairy Index.