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TIL On average, 4 shipping containers drop into the ocean every day.

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oDZ8 TIL Apollo 13, was filmed on board reduced gravity aircraft to show realistic weightlessness, but along with it’s combination of CGI and small scale props it lost “Best Visual Effects” to Babe at the Academy Awards.
vp7r TIL Victoria is the capital of British Columbia
EgrAX TIL about peona cullei.“Punishment of the Sack” This was a ancient Roman execution, commonly used for patricide, where a man is sewn up in a leather sackcloth, with a live dog, monkey, viper, and rooster, and then tossed into a body of water.
gMew8 Today I learned there are jaguars living in the United States and the most famous one is named El Jefe
KbJE TIL: A resort in Alaska built a hotel made entirely of ice. It was shut down due to lack of smoke detectors & fire extinguishers.