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TIL more than half of all new PhDs in the US are fake

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9YnGD TIL that there are approximately 15, 000 tonnes of gold in the ocean.
e0MBg TIL During the past two years, at least five bills relating to the country’s shark fin trade have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. All five died before becoming laws, leaving the fate of sharks in the U.S. uncertain.
MeGy8 TIL If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.
DQYNV TIL In 1930 the gangster Legs Diamond went to Europe. The American government warned Europe so Diamond was immediately arrested in Belgium and then deported to Germany where he was immediately arrested and deported back to the USA. Diamond was arrested in Philadelphia and banned from the city.
YplxP TIL the soldier who shot and killed John Wilkes Boothe was given the nickname "Lincoln's Avenger"