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TIL Lake Baikal contains 22–23% of the world's fresh surface water (more than all of the North American Great Lakes combined)

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QJ41a TIL Female Dragonflies will fake their own deaths in order to avoid sexual advances from unwanted males.
OGgAR TIL remains of victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing were retained by the City of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania until 2021, without the knowledge or consent of their surviving family members
Wyd4 TIL that Deaf people experience a “tip of the fingers” phenomenon in sign language, just as hearing persons describe a word being on the “tip of their tongue”
kDYW TIL the band “Twenty One Pilots” got their name from the book “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
epZ8n TIL that close to half of the US population is projected to have obesity by the year 2030 (article is from 2019)