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TIL there’s a lake in Russia that contains more water than all of the American Great Lakes combined

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0wr6M TIL Tony Iommi, founding member of the Black Sabbath, replaced his finger tips with homemade prostheses made out of plastic after losing them on his last day at a steel factory , requiring him to downtune his guitar to play it, creating their signature sound and helping to define modern metal music.
XEQQj TIL Chinese Americans make up only 1.3% of the population of the United States.
VBO4B TIL The English seaside resort of Blackpool was left mostly unscathed by bombing during the Blitz. Documents have suggested that Hitler wanted it preserved as a place for recreation once Germany invaded and conquered England.
nWNwo TIL The Fairey Swordfish biplane was considered out of date by 1939 but was effective throughout WW2. Swordfish sunk more enemy tonnage than any other plane, sunk numerous U-boats, disabled the Bismarck, and remained in use into 1945.
69Bv8 TIL that novelist Graham Greene once entered a writing contest for Graham Greene parodies; he submitted three entries, one of which actually won (tied with four other entries).