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TIL: The thin skin of soil that covers much of our planet's land stores more amounts of carbon than in all plants and the atmosphere combined

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vPZbL TIL there's an Underground river beneath the Amazon River, it was discovered in 2011 and its about as long as the Amazon river, but it is much broader. It's unofficial name is the Rio Hamza
DQxED TIL of Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and congressman during the Civil War. The Union deported him for supporting the Confederacy. After the war, he died by accidentally shooting himself during a murder trial while trying to show the murder weapon could have misfired. His client got off as a result
9w0om TIL Victor Salva, the director of Powder and the Jeepers Creeps trilogy is a convicted child molester that abused the star of Clownhouse
N7LQN TIL of the Palm Dog Award, an award at the Cannes Film Festival given to the best canine performance.
ALEa TIL The Manhatten Project raised background radiation levels so much, that for a long time geiger counters were built out of pre-1940s steel, mainly salvaged from sunken battleships