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TIL: There is a cave full of MASSIVE CRYSTALS 304 meters underneath Mexico. Seriously “Journey To The Centre Of The Earth” style.

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R5bAQ TIL that in 1945, the US Navy converted a former concrete production barge into a floating ice cream factory. It was towed around the Pacific to provide ice cream to Allied troops, and could produce 10 gallons of ice cream every 7 minutes.
JYlj8 TIL the singer of the peanut butter jelly time song was brother in law to Snoop Dogg and died in an 11 hour stand off with the police.
ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs
m1J9O TIL University of Exeter offering master's degree in magic and the occult science
EgyjV TIL: Vikings were extremely well kept for their time. So much so that an English cleric claim that they bathe regularly, comb their hair, and change clothes frequently to seduce highborn English women to their heathen ways. Numerous bone combs, tweezers, and earspoons have been found.