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TIL that the blobfish is actually a normal looking fish, it just decompresses when you take it out of extreme depths.

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lvNN TIL the film Juno earned back its initial budget of $6.5 million in just twenty days, the first nineteen of which were when the film was in limited release.
9Y59D TIL that a NASA intern unknowingly purchased original footage from the Apollo 11 voyage at a government auction in 1976 for $217.77. He found out over 30 years later and sold them for $1.82m at Sotheby’s.
YpPr TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa was almost destroyed by the Allied Forces because it was being used as an observation post by Germany. A soldier who was sent to confirm the use by the Germans prevented the airstrike that would have destroyed it because he was impressed by the beauty of it.
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