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TIL Alaska has over 3,000,000 lakes

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6EyE7 TIL one 1990 episode of Quantum Leap managed to predict some of the events of the 1996 Super Bowl. Not only did the screenwriter correctly predict that the Pittsburgh Steelers would be playing, the Steelers also ended up trailing by 3 at some points of the game, just like in the show.
PY7xG TIL Nero never fiddled while Rome burned, because there were no fiddles in Rome. Violins were not invented until some 1400 years later.
kJgad TIL that before ever getting involved with politics, Abraham Lincoln had worked as a farmhand, ferryboat operator, store clerk, and surveyor
lPaA TIL there is a place in Africa (Afar Triangle) where giant gaping cracks will randomly and suddenly form that shoot out blasts of superheated air at 750 degrees Fahrenheit.
Bgxxb TIL That Freddie Mercury was born in Africa to Indian parents.