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TIL That Lake Mead, the reservoir behind Hoover dam in Nevada/Arizona, hasn't been at full capacity since 1983 and as of 30 June 2021 is filled at a record low of 35%.

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eplMJ TIL about Jack Barsky, a former KGB agent who lived in the US. The FBI bought the property next door and monitored him for 3 years. He was caught and confessed. Barsky later became close friends with the FBI agent tasked with monitoring him and he is now a godfather to Barsky's child.
wZL1 TIL that the special editon of Playstation1 game Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style came with a fully functional Wu-Tang “W” controller.
b6DGE TIL Ray Bolger, the actor who played Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz (1939) was asked if he got any residuals from telecasts of The Wizard of Oz, Bolger replyed: "No, just immortality. I'll settle for that."
4Xe6g TIL in an experiment where subjects were told to allocate funds to other subjects, they would always favour members of their own group, even though they didn't know who the groupmembers were, had never met them, and had been arbitrarily put into their group.