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Friday, September 09, 2011
Surprising Factoid of the Day
According to Elixir,A History of Water and Humankind, by Brian Fagan, it took a long while for Europeans to figure out that the rain and snow accounted for the water in the rivers. He gives da Vinci credit for first seeing that, but it wasn't confirmed until the 17th century.
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