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TIL that cemeteries cause pollution of groundwater due to the decay of corpses

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e0VZg Today I learned that one of the first human names ever recorded and is still used in modern times is Anita.
Va00 TIL that on 9 Nov 1979, NORAD thought the USSR had launched 2,200 nukes at the US and everyone was about to die
9YKA7 TIL Belgium is the world’s largest kangaroo meat importer. Sad part is that they’re taken down quiet cruelly: “Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions.”
aw9DN TIL a man in Fresno bought a $2 photo at a junk store only to find out it was of Billy the Kid and his Gang, the Regulators, playing croquet.
l76VG TIL that although they played father and son in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Sean Connery (b. 1930) and Harrison Ford (b. 1942) are fewer than 12 years in age apart in real life.