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TIL There is a PINK lake in this planet of ours

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OoakL TIL that the composer Arnold Schoenberg had a morbid fear of the number 13. On his 76th birthday, an astrologer wrote him a letter of warning reading only "7 + 6 = 13", causing him to fall into a deep depression and illness, from which he died on Friday the 13th.
LkK5d TIL Scientists are digging up Adélie penguin guano(poop) to study millennia of Antarctica’s history.
wjM7 TIL - there is a rarely seen room in The Simpsons home. The Rumpus Room (picture in comments)
Zp5mv TIL in 1989, 20 tonnes of cocaine and $10 million in cash were seized from a warehouse in L.A. At the time, it was the largest drug seizure ever at a single location and it was unguarded with the door secured by a single $6 padlock. In today's money, it'd be worth over $4.7 billion.
kJ6YE Til when Cleopatra and Julius Caesar met and subsequently became lovers, she was 21 and he was 52