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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.

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