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TIL a one of a kind sulphur based ecosystem exists in a Romanian cave completely sealed off from the rest of the world

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QZN9 TIL that on almost all of his albums, Lenny Kravitz not only sang his songs, but did everything else: played the guitar, bass, drums, percussions and produced them all himself.
loXYN TIL: Nearly 70% of Jewish people are lactose intolerant
vBE4 TIL that of the 112 deaths during the construction of the Hoover dam. The first was J.G.Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922. His son, Patrick, was the last man to die working on the dam’s construction, 13 years to the day later.
MegYb TIL Keanu Reeves’s stuntman in The Matrix, Chad Stahelski, directed the John Wick movies
9YQN6 TIL of Eric Lomax, a British ex-POW who was captured in 1942 by Japanese forces. Many years after the war, he tracked down the Japanese man who had tortured him, and forgave him.