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TIL four rivers named Mat, Ta, Po, and Ni merge to form the Mattaponi river.

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BrVRD TIL that there’s a “dead spot” in the Black Sea where scientists have found ships as old as 1200 years preserved well enough to see chisel marks from original builder.
7LxZ TIL an Arizona teen was sentenced to spend 6 years in a state facility after being accused of making a lewd phone call. His case led to a Supreme Court decision mandating juveniles be granted all the constitutional safeguards of a criminal trial.
wLnKP TIL in South Korea, spinning “barber poles” outside an establishment signify a brothel not a barbershop
Me1GB TIL that growing up, Samuel L Jackson has a bad stutter, which got him into acting so he could ‘pretend to be someone who doesn’t stutter’ and he also at this time started to use ‘motherfucker’ as an affirmation word to help keep from stuttering.
yVA8v TIL in 1989 a man bought a painting for $4 at a flea market mostly because he liked the frame. He discovered a document behind the canvas. It was an official copy of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. Only 23 were known to exist. He sold it at auction for $2.42 million in 1991.