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TIL that more than 50% of the oxygen produced on earth is from photosynthesizers in the ocean, such as Prochlorococcus and phytoplankton.

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TIL about the "Upside Down Boat Village" in France. Equihen-Plage, a former fishing village on the English Channel with a dry harbor, became a stranded port at the start of the 20th century. Poor families living in the village recovered the boat hulls to build makeshift shelters for themselves.

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TIL about John C. Malone, the largest private landowner in the United States, possessing upwards to 2.2 million acres, which is more than twice the size of Rhode Island.

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TIL the Romans adjusted daily schedules to the sun. They divided daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during fall. The 3rd hour of the day in Rome was 44 min for winter solstice and 75 min for summer solstice.

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TIL the primetime version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' averaged 30M viewers a night at its peak in 2000. However, ABC overexposed the show by extending it to an hour and airing it every weekday, causing ABC to drop from most-watched network to below the top 20. It was then canceled in 2002.

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TIL Sacha Baron Cohen carried a bulletproof clipboard when he filmed one segment of Who is America, out of fear that the participants would shoot him.

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TIL after a chance encounter, Charles-Michel de l'Épée was taught to sign by the deaf. Believing the deaf should be able to receive the sacraments, he founded a school in 1760 to teach sign language. His public advocacy enabled deaf people to legally defend themselves in court for the first time

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TIL the last heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Bulgaria was still not enthroned when the monarchy was abolished. After his 50-year exile he returned and formed a political party, then elected PM of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2001.

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TIL The Navajo Language is related to the Athabaskan Languages of Alaska which are likely related to the Yeneisan language in the middle of Siberia which is the first credible linguistic relationship between Old World and New World Languages

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Today I Learned that leaded fuel is still sold at roughly 13,000 airports across the US and used regularly by an estimated 170,000 small aircraft, the residue from which has been measured in surrounding communities (as originally reported by the EPA and FAA).

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TIL unfrosted Pop Tarts have more calories and fat than frosted Pop Tarts. The unfrosted ones have a slightly thicker crust to make up for the lack of frosting.

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TIL of the British Pet Massacre where over 750,000 pets were killed in preparation for food shortages during World War II

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TIL Adolf Hitler once befriended a Jew, Rosa Bernile Nienau, which only ended when top Nazi officials interfered five years later.

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TIL that the oldest known DNA is 1.2 million years old; it was extracted from the remains of mammoths buried under the ice of Siberia.

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TIL Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) was a computer magazine columnist in the 90s and his column became known for randomly referencing Uma Thurman and pranking readers. He is also credited with debunking a 90s era conspiracy theory which suggested Microsoft's Wingdings font contained secret messages

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TIL In black swans around one-quarter of all pairings are homosexual, mostly between males. Male couples steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs.

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TIL that in 1913 the first $20,000 of income was not federally taxed. That's $551,521.21 in July 2021 dollars.

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TIL Playboy founder and U.S. Army veteran Hugh Hefner provided his plane, the “Big Bunny,” to transport Vietnamese children to New York during the evacuation of Saigon. Playboy bunnies were the ones who cared for the babies until they reached their destination

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TIL that Sunflowers are important for decontaminating soils contaminated by hazardous materials

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TIL that Mount Kailash in Tibet is considered to be sacred in four religions: Hinduism, Bon, Buddhism, and Jainism. Due to its religious significance, Kailash remains an unclimbed mountain.

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TIL of Elan School, a child behavior modification camp operating from 1970-2011. Using Lord of The Flies style techniques, they would psychologically destroy the children for years, leading to extraordinarily high suicide rates. If a child escaped, bounty hunters would chase them across the country.

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TIL that Bruce Lee was notorious for "kicking the shit out of stuntmen" during fight scenes on the show The Green Hornet and would sometimes jump-kick people on the set. In one instance he dislocated someone's jaw.

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TIL In recognition discovering Uranus, King George III gave Herschel an annual stipend of £200 on condition that he move to Windsor so that the Royal Family could look through his telescopes (equivalent to £24,000 in 2019).

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TIL that Canadians eat more Kraft macaroni and cheese than any other country in the world. They eat 55% more than Americans, which are the second largest consumers of Kraft macaroni and cheese.

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TIL that in 2011, the IIHS crash tested two 1973 Chevy Impalas with airbags and the airbags performed flawlessly despite their age and early technology.

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TIL that the Paralympic Games were founded by Sir Ludwig Guttmann, A Jewish Neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 - Sir Ludwig challenged people's perception of what disability actually is as you focus on the abilities of the athletes competing.

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TIL that Charles D. B. King holds the record for the most fraudulent election in history. In 1927 he was elected President of Liberia with 234,000 votes in a country that only had 15,000 registered voters at the time.

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TIL about Skiplagging. Booking a longer flight with transit to the destination you want and don't finish the last leg actually saves money.

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TIL about Christina the Astonishing, a 12th century holy woman whose miracles included having her breasts flow with a clear oil which she used to feed herself and cure her wounds while in captivity.

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TIL in the Jewish text Pirkei Avot it is said that God created the first pair of tongs on the sixth day of creation as a blacksmith would have to use a pair of tongs to make tongs

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TIL In 1933 Einstein had a salary of $10,000, which would be about $178,000 today. This would make him the highest-paid scientist in his field. When he died, his net worth was $1.25 million or $11 million today

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TIL UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention was created to preserve the Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt. After the Nasser Dam was built, the temple was briefly submerged underwater and a large effort was undertaken to relocate the mountain it was carved on and rebuild the temple piece by piece.

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TIL that Kraft single cheese slices were invented when Mr Kraft wanted to get rid of old cheese, and today do not even qualify as real cheese.

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TIL since his film debut in 1996's "Bottlerocket", Owen Wilson has said "wow" in 51.9 percent of his movies and his record for highest number of "wows" in a single movie is 2011's "Midnight in Paris" where he utters it seven times. To date, his catchphrase appears 81 times in 27 different movies.

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TIL 38 years ago a man in Perugia, Italy was digging a plot in his backyard for a vegetable garden and discovered an Etruscan tomb dating before Christ.

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TIL the 1989 Beastie Boys album "Paul’s Boutique" was created before copyright law for sampling was well established and it would cost at least $20 million to clear the samples if it were released today

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TIL that In Moscow, stray dog packs may occasionally send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, presumably because they know it will be more successful than their larger, less beautiful colleagues.

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TIL Nigeria started a famine in 1968 that would kill 2-3 million people, prompting one of the largest humanitarian crises of all time. To which Nigeria responded "If the children must die first, then that is too bad, just too bad."

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TIL a study found Viagra may protect the heart. In a study of heart attack patients, those treated for ED were 40% less likely to be hospitalized for heart failure, and were 33% less likely to die of any cause during the follow up.

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TIL the fastest speed ever recorded on a bicycle is 183.931 mph. Recorded by Denise Mueller-Korenek in 2018 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, the gearing on the bike was so steep that she was towed to a speed of around 100mph before taking over under her own power!

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TIL Karl Dönitz became fuhrer after Hitler’s suicide, & his cabinet continued to have daily 10am meetings for about a month even though they had no power. They discussed how Germany should proceed after the war, despite the Allies showing absolutely no interest in adopting their plans

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TIL Nils Bohlin, an engineer at Volvo, invented the three-point seat belt in 1959. Volvo opened up the patent so that any car manufacturer could use it in their design. They decided that it had more value as a free life-saving tool than something to profit from.

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TIL that Mountain Lions, Cougars, and Pumas are nearly the exact same animal. The differences between them are similar to the differences between house cats rather than type of cat.

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TIL Chuck Norris has more than 6 black belts including a 10th degree in Chun Kuk Do, 9th degree in Tang Soo Do and 8th degree in Tae Kwon Do.

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TIL of Sogen Kato who was believed to be the oldest man alive in Tokyo at 111 years old until his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom. He died at 79 and his family simply never reported this to authorities.

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TIL in the US, "service animals" are not legally required to have any documentation, identification, or even professional training.

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TIL Coffee drinkers are 53 percent less likely to commit suicide, thought to be correlated to the dopamine released while coffee drinking.

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TIL that hog rectum and calamari have a taste and texture similar enough to be hard to tell apart

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TIL about John Morton-Finney, a lawyer who retired at 107 years of age, spoke 6 different languages and earned 5 law degrees

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TIL George Lucas has denied accusations that Jar Jar Binks is a Restafarian caricature. Binks’ voice actor Ahmed Best asserts that Jar Jar has nothing to do with the Caribbean.

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