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TIL that the Earth likely has an underground ocean between the upper and lower mantle, with as much water as all the outer oceans combined

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xG80 TIL Kit Kat is so popular in Japan that it is sold at high-end department stores, Kit Kat only specialty shops, and post offices. Nearly every region has a signature flavor sold only in that part of the country, and there are nearly 300 flavors of Kit Kat.
kkQ7 TIL Apollo 15’s crew left a plaque on the Moon commemorating both American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts who had died for space exploration
9YGbm TIL John Deacon of the band "Queen" was originally credited as "Deacon John" on their first album in order to make him sound more interesting
4kO5g TIL that vitamin D3 comes from human skin
LkKlm TIL that Benjamin Wade, a 19th century "Radical Republican", earned praise from Karl Marx in the preface of Das Kapital for his open criticism of capitalism