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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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6EDRW TIL that King Charles II in 1662 ordered all female roles in plays to be played by women after a play he was watching was interrupted on account of a man cast as a woman taking too long to shave
VpEQ TIL The U.S. is one of only a few countries that does not guarantee retroactive amelioration (reduction of prison sentence based on changes in the law)
QNJVL TIL:Forest glass was produced in northwestern and central Europe from approximately 1000–1700 AD using wood ash and sand as the main raw materials and made in factories known as glasshouses.
69N1Y TIL that Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl never recorded the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" together in the studio. The record's producer, Steve Lillywhite, asked MacColl, his wife, to record the woman's part as a guide for someone else, but MacGowan liked it and rerecorded his part to match hers.
d8mZr TIL that the human anus is extremely person-specific just as fingerprint is, and smart toilets of the future could identify users by anus alone.