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TIL that there is a plan in place to re-fill the Great Salt Lake with water from the Pacific Ocean

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9XvD TIL NASA requires all astronauts to learn Russian language.
9Y6GB TIL Cornelius Cole, a senator from CA, sold his interests in railroad stock which he knew would be worth a fortune. "[Those shares]...largely through my exertions in Congress, worth several millions," he wrote. "Such is the sacrifice of a man in public life . . . but for which he gets no credit."
LM10 TIL that when photographer Yousef Karsh took a photo of Winston Churchill, Yousef took the cigar straight from Churchills mouth and took the photo. This was the grumpy result.
dvx8 TIL chickens who watched a video of another chicken eating from a particular food dish were more likely to later choose to eat out of that same dish themselves
9YRar TIL the song Over the River and Through the Wood is actually about Thanksgiving, and although we don't usually associate Thanksgiving with snow, at the time it was written, in the early 19th century, New England was going through the Little Ice Age.