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TIL the entire earth used to covered in ice, even the equator

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wLbg6 TIL that Allen Lichtman worked with V. Keilis-Borok in designing an exceptionally accurate model to predict wether or not the incumbent party retains the White House. He correctly called results of eight out of the past nine elections, including 2016. This month, he announced that GOP will lose
4XMY6 TIL while the average American musician made $35k in 2017, only $21,300 of that was generated from music-related ventures, and 61% of surveyed musicians said that "music-related income is not sufficient to meet their living expenses.".
b9vg9 TIL That when Christopher Reeve (the man who played Superman) was about to receive the surgery to reattach his skull to his spine after falling off a horse, Robin Williams cheered him up by dressing as his character from Nine Months and proclaiming that Reeve will be getting a rectal exam.
R5YB9 TIL while the title Archduke was mostly designated to a person greater than a regular duke but less then a king, the original archduke was Otto the Great and was made by combining his titles of 'archbishop' and 'duke' to symbolise his dual roles.
d8kk9 TIL The word facetious contains all five vowels in alphabetical order.