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TIL a mediterranean sea is a mostly enclosed sea whos water circulation is dominated by salinity changes, so TIL The Mediterranean sea is a mediterranean sea.

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dDAw8 TIL The US Once Considered a Plan to Detonate a Nuclear Bomb on the Moon
168Pd TIL that after WWE wrestler Diamond Dallas Page went through a character change in late 2001, that being of a motivational over-the-top positive speaker, he would get his teeth whitened and got a facelift to fully commit to the new character.
YmJG TIL that Canada had a top secret list of suspected Communists they intended to detain indefinitely. If they tried to escape, they would be shot… one of the people on that list was Tommy Douglas - the founder of the current Healthcare and CPP programs.
Vlwp TIL blind hiker Bill Irwin completed the Appalachian Trail with the help of his seeing eye dog, after falling ~5,000 times
8GXZ TIL that in 1943 hundreds of Aryan women gathered in Berlin to protest the mass arrest and consequent imprisonment of their Jewish husbands by the Gestapo. Following a week of protesting, night and day, they won their husbands’ freedom.