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TIL the world is running out of sand. It is necessary for making glass and concrete which makes it the second most used resource globaly. And since desert sand is mostly unusable, it's not as abundant as most people think.

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KKYJ TIL: The UK Royal Mail ran an underground railway network in London of driverless trains from 1927 until 2003 to move mail between sorting offices
b6ny9 TIL MD 20/20 is short for Mogen David fortified wine. Mad Dog is only a nickname for the drink.
VMmkp TIL The last known living survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade died in 1940 at the age of 83.
yVWRJ TIL the first eclipse to be known in advance of its occurrence happened in 585 BC and was accurately predicted by Thales of Miletus. The methods he used for his prediction remain unknown.
mxgYP TIL about the MS Achille Lauro. The Italian cruise ship, launched in 1947, crashed into other ships twice, caught fire four times, and was hijacked in 1985. It eventually sank in the Indian Ocean in 1994.