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TIL Scientists have never seen baby nautilus eggs in the wild
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TIL about potash evaporation ponds in the Utah desert. Depending on the amount of potash inside the pools, they can turn turquoise, orange, yellow and even white. About 700 - 1000 tons of potash are produced very day, which can then be used to fertilize plants and treat industrial water.
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TIL that scientists believe the earliest known ancestor of humans (and many others), Saccorhytus, was about a millimeter in size and lived between grains of sand on the ocean floor 540 million years ago. It also had a very large mouth, but surprisingly no anus
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TIL that Mormon holy books were written in faux-King James English (eg thou goeth) - the language of Bibles from Joseph Smith’s time - and contain extensive grammatical errors (eg subj-verb disagreement), suggesting that Smith was trying to make his writing sound superficially “more Biblical”
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TIL that a television station (channel 42) in Alabama aired a countdown clock at 5 and 10 p.m. for a month because it fired all of its on-air presenters as well as other news employees in December 1997.
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TIL Kurt Russell has been dating Goldie Hawn since 1986. Hawn's children include actors Oliver and Kate Hudson, who consider Russell more of a father than their actual biological father.