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TIL only 31% of college graduates know that nitrogen makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere.

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B6Mk TIL Don LaFontaine, who was nicknamed “Thunder Throat” and “The Voice of God”, voiced over 5,000 movie trailers. His final voice over role was for an episode of Phineas and Ferb, in which he said in his final line: “In a world … There, I said it. Happy?”
O667 TIL that 18 years after being shot, 91 of the 220 cast and crew of The Conqueror had cancer and 46 had died including John Wayne, due to the fact that the film was shot on nuclear weapons testing ground in Nevada.
JY1x8 TIL that one TeraKelvin (1,000,000,000,000 K) is the melting temperature of a proton
yQ8El TIL: camels actually evolved in North America and migrated to the rest of the world via Bering land bridge before becoming extinct in the Americas. They also didn't have humps and were about the size of a beagle.
Rov1 TIL: Japan’s 2022 Fifa’s world cup bid included projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto fields across the world.