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TIL Glaciers are not the second largest reservoir of water on Earth as previously thought. A 2021 study showed that groundwater is the second largest reservoir of water (at 43.9 million km^3) after Oceans (1.3 billion km^3). Glaciers are a distant third at 158,000 km^3.

wLbdM TIL that famous psychic and prophet Jeanne Dixon predicted (in 1971) that the world would end in 2020.
LdMr TIL The Chinese title for the film Pretty Woman is “I Will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money”
oxGW TIL That Africans were once an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
OMxe TIL that New Zealand once tried to weaponize tsunamis (Project Seal)
b6Wx4 TIL: Egypt has a city called 6th of October