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TIL: Flo from Progressive makes $500k/year doing those commercials

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LBev TIL once 4th largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea, has declined to only 10% of its original size since the 1960’s. The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters.
nal9 TIL It is impossible to drive from Central America to South America due to the Darién Gap, a 99 mile long area that spans across the border between Panama and Colombia where there are no roads but only mountains and swampland.
x64kk TIL Stars appear to twinkle because their light passes through our atmosphere and is bent and distorted by varying temperatures and densities of air
WZPN TIL a kid dying in the Make a Wish Foundation asked for a bridge to be painted turquoise so it was… and birds keep dying by flying into it thinking it’s sky.
9vOr TIL Attila the Hun invaded Rome since the Emperor’s sister did not want to be married to a senator and asked for his help.