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TIL wherever you are on earth, there is a greater than 95% chance that the point on the opposite side of the planet to you will be ocean.

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VMLbQ TIL that in the movie Noah's Ark, filmed in 1928, the flood scene at the movie's climax was created by actually dumping 600,000 gallons of water onto the set. Three extras drowned and many suffered broken bones. This led to the introduction of safety regulations for movie stunts in 1929.
JY4Q4 TIL: Napoleon seriously considered using a fleet of troop-carrying balloons as part of his proposed invasion force of Britain in the 1805 but backed out due to dangerous winds.
rROEw TIL that when Ernest Hemingway tried his first daiquiri, he said it was too sweet and asked for double the rum and less sugar. Thus, the Hemingway daiquiri was born.
x6kV1 TIL that there is a virus called Sputnik which infects other viruses. When a virus called APMV infects a host, Sputnik then hijacks it and uses it as a means to replicate, damaging the APMV's own machinery in the process, while not harming the host.
OoVAR As well as extroverts and introverts, there are "ambiverts" who lie somewhere in the middle and actually, researchers predict about two-thirds of us are ambiverts.