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TIL if you would melt the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland, it could supply every single person on the Earth with a litre of water every day for 4.5 years.

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aAmM TIL “Esposas” in spanish mean both “Handcuffs” and “Wives”
dlVZ TIL in 1933 six thousand people were deported to an island in the Soviet Union and left with only flour to eat and no shelter. Guards would hunt people like animals, deliberately sink ships full of people and cannibalism became common.
6EmaX TIL: Babies are born without kneecaps
4XgPb TIL that bookkeeping is the only word in the English language with 3 consecutive sets of double letters
vDNR TIL the average pencil holds enough graphite to draw a line about 35 miles long or to write roughly 45,000 words