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TIL There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with roughly one foot of water

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kO0Km TIL a legally blind hoarder whose son had not been seen for 20 years was found to have been living with his corpse. His fully clothed skeleton was found in a room filled with cobwebs and garbage, and she reported thinking that he had simply moved out.
OG0YY TIL Byzantine emperor Basil II "the Bulgar Slayer" after the battle of Kleidion divided 15,000 war prisoners into groups of 100 men, blinded 99 men in each group and left one man in each with one eye so that he could lead the others home.
R7OMa TIL A community exists to match people who want kitchen scraps (for compost or livestock) with people who don't have a way to deal with their organic trash
0wO4L TIL that cockroaches represent rebirth and resistance as a spirit animal.
kOLWB TIL that the earliest-living historical person known by name is Iry-Hor, a predynastic pharaoh who ruled over Upper Egypt in around 3200 BC. His dynasty is regarded in Egyptology as 'Dynasty 0' - the first out of 30 dynasties that reigned over Egypt.