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TIL In 2014 the Colorado river reached the sea for the first time in 16 years.

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PYMWV TIL that former MLB player Larry Walker was obsessed with the number 3. He set his alarm for 33 minutes past the hour, took practice swings in multiples of 3, wore the number 3, was married Nov 3 at 3:33pm, and once bought 33 tickets for disadvantaged kids to sit in section 333 of the ballpark.
XZgD TIL Gandhi refused treatment of his dying wife with antibiotics that would have saved her on religious grounds and then took quinine 6 weeks later to stave off malaria
pYRb4 TIL 21% of transgender individuals in the US have served in the armed forces.