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TIL Jada Pinkett Smith has a metal band

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NY58 TIL that in 1893 geologist and explorer Major John Wesley Powell told the Los Angeles International Irrigation Congress, “Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.” He was booed out of the hall.
OGxER TIL that in 1981, the magazine Locus butchered the title of Gene Wolfe's next novel "The Citadel of the Autarch" and announced that it would be titled "The Castle of the Otter". Wolfe found the mistake so funny he actually published a book titled "The Castle of the Otter" the following year.
yM8v TIL the longest labour in the world was 75 days and the mother had to lie upside down the entire time.
RyPQ TIL that the University of Virginia offers a class in Computer Security which is formally called “Defense Against the Dark Arts”
e65L TIL - Humans can outrun any animal on earth in a marathon.