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TIL The Great Salt Lake was once almost the size of Lake Michigan

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OoeeL TIL: Dildo, unincorporated town in Newfoundland, Canada, population 1,198. “In the 20th century there were several campaigns to change the name, though all failed”
BrlOd TIL Holland is a region and former province on the western coast of the Netherlands, not a formal name for the country.
6EeRm TIL that ants farm & milk insects called aphids. Ants protect the aphids from predators and bring them food, then "milk the aphids to produce a sweet substance known as honeydew" which the ants then store + eat.
E0g7 TIL in the Blue Angels’ 63 year history, nearly 10% of its pilots have died in training or air show accidents.
gMpP9 TIL that Ryoki Inoue is the world’s most prolific writer alive. The Brazilian author has published 1090 books under thirty-nine pseudonyms.