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TIL that the ancient akkadians believed that the clouds were the breast of the goddess antum and rain was her breast milk.

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mEXY TIL Charles Darwin had debilitating depression that, by his own account, left him unable to do anything one out of three days.
mWvv TIL While filming “Indiana Jones”, the crew played a joke on Harrison Ford. While chained to a large stone, Barbara Streisand appeared in a dominatrix outfit. She proceeded to whip him before Carrie Fisher then threw herself in front of Ford to protect him. This entire sequence was filmed.
OGj0e TIL that the Dune di Piscinas in Sardinia are Europe’s largest sandy desert, formed by Sahara sand traveling about 180+ miles across the Mediterranean, then pushed nearly 1-2 miles inland by the Mistral wind, creating the “little Italian Sahara.”
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pWON TIL 70% of murders in Detroit go unsolved.