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TIL the Panama Canal is running out of water.

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9wwn6 TIL Japan's current imperial dynasty is the oldest in the world, spanning 126 emperors, more than 2500 years and was founded in the year 660 BCE by Jimmu Tenno, son of goddess Amaterasu
16VkW TIL None of the native species of bee in Australia are true honey bees. Social species of native bees do produce honey, but not much, as they are relatively primitive bee species. And the bees that do produce honey store it in small resinous pots which look like bunches of grapes
QNZRX TIL there's a theory that the evolution to light skin in Europeans only occurred around 12,000-6,000 years ago.
R7kla TIL in 1989 murderer Michael Godwin had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment after five years awaiting the electric chair but was electrocuted accidentally while sitting naked on a steel toilet seat in his cell. While trying to fix his television set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
xV7x5 TIL that the Loofa Sponge is made from a vegetable known as the luffa gourd.